Ethnographies of ‘On Demand’ Films

Anthropological Explorations of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvAlex Vailati,Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

1 669 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-10-01
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
Upplaga21001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030789107

Tillhör följande kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Alex Vailati is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. An anthropologist and documentarist, he is the coordinator of the university’s Visual Anthropology Laboratory (LAV). He is the author of Migration of Rich Immigrants: Gender, Ethnicity and Class (2016, with Carmel Rial).Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal is a Professor and researcher at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos in El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico. She is the author of Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia ( 2017). Her current research includes work on popular photographic and audiovisual archives in Michoacán, Mexico and La Paz, Bolivia.

Part 1. ON DEMAND ETHNOGRAPHERS.- Chapter 1. Making “Commissioned Home Movies” in Post-Socialist Romania: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Ethnographic Investigations of Collaborative Filming for Dementia.- Chapter 3. Musicalizing the Other or the “Otherfication” in Music?: The Anthropologist as an Audiovisual Mediator.- Chapter 4. Between Institutional Policies and Ethnographic Gazes: Thoughts on the Audiovisual Practices on the Register of Feira de Campina Grande as Brazilian Cultural Heritage.- PART 2. PRODUCERS AND PRODUCED.- Chapter 5. Videos of 'Prestes' or Religious Dance Fraternities as New Forms of Ostentatiousness in La Paz, Bolivia.- Chapter 6. Shooting Elites: An Ethnography of Wedding-film Production for Elites.- Chapter 7. The Circulation of Low-budget Videos in the Football System.- Chapter 8. Multiple Videographies: From Promotional Documentaries to Videoclips of Andean Popular Music in the PeruvianVideosphere.- PART 3. FORMS AND CIRCULATIONS.- Chapter 9. Expanding the Family Frame: Social Specialists, Intimate Publics, and Gendered Images of Mobility in Transnational Wedding Videos.- Chapter 10. Of Archons and Amateurs: Commissioned Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema.- Chapter 11. Aesthetic Norms of Subaltern Filmmaking: Comic Skits of the Everyday in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 12. Moral Panic at the Country: Conservative Civil Society Groups and Social Video Uses in Peru.