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The Adventure of the Real (2010)
Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
by Paul Henley
Subject: Director > Jean Rouch
Three Documentary Filmmakers (2009)
Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
Dir. William Rothman
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Cinematic Griot (1992)
The Ethnography of Jean Rouch
by Paul Stoller
Subject: Director > Jean Rouch
Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers (2023)
Beyond Representation
Dir. Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang and Alexie Tcheuyap
Uncovering Memory (2023)
Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina
by Tanja Sakota
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Across the World with the Johnsons (2016)
Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century
by Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom and Fiona Paisley
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Ethnographic Optic (2024)
Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema
Building Bridges
The Cinema of Jean Rouch
Edited by Joram ten Brink
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Book Presentation:
Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch is the first title to fully explore the work and legacy of French documentary-maker Jean Rouch. A figure as comfortable in front of the camera as behind it, Rouch created some of the most enduring sociological films about French and francophone African culture, and his playful documentaries make him the spiritual ancestor of filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore, and a precursor to the world of Big Brother and reality TV. Based on a major inter-national conference, this study contains over twenty new essays from a global cast of filmmakers, film critics, academics and actors, including a number of Rouch's African-based collaborators, and discusses his massive contribution to ethnographic filmmaking with films such as Les Maitres fous (1955), Le Pyramide humaine (1961) and Chronique d'un été (1961). This collection is set to become a benchmark study of one of the most influential documentary presences of the last century.
About the Author:
Joram ten Brink is a filmmaker and Reader in Film at the University of Westminster.
See the publisher website: Wallflower Press
See the complete filmography of Jean Rouch on the website: IMDB ...
> From the same author:
Killer Images (2013)
Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence
Dir. Joram ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer
Subject: Genre > Documentary
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