Catherine Russell is Associate Professor of Cinema at Concordia University and the author of Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas.

• Acknowledgments ixPreface xiIntroduction to Experimental Ethnography 1. Another Look 2. Surrealist Ethnography Documentary Before Documentary 3. The Body as the Main Attraction 4. Ethnotopias of Early Cinema 5. Playing Primitive The Undisciplined Gaze 6. Zoology, Pornography, Ethnography 7. Framing People: Structural Film Revisited Other Realities 8. Ecstatic Ethnography: Filming Possession Rituals 9. Archival Apocalypse: Found Footage as Ethnography Conclusion 10. Autoethnography: Journeys of the Self Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

“The breadth and range of this book is fantastic. Russell tackles many interesting problematics and she does so through an eclectic choice of examples. This will stand out as a major and unique redefinition of the fields of experimental cinema and visual anthropology.”-Ivone Margulies, author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday “This is an extremely important and innovative book. Russell brings together two distinct fields from film studies that have previously remained separate-the avant-garde and ethnographic film-and reconstructs their relationship in such a way that both fields are significantly transformed.”-David E. James, author of Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture

Catherine Russell is Associate Professor of Cinema at Concordia University and the author of Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas.

• Acknowledgments ixPreface xiIntroduction to Experimental Ethnography 1. Another Look 2. Surrealist Ethnography Documentary Before Documentary 3. The Body as the Main Attraction 4. Ethnotopias of Early Cinema 5. Playing Primitive The Undisciplined Gaze 6. Zoology, Pornography, Ethnography 7. Framing People: Structural Film Revisited Other Realities 8. Ecstatic Ethnography: Filming Possession Rituals 9. Archival Apocalypse: Found Footage as Ethnography Conclusion 10. Autoethnography: Journeys of the Self Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

“The breadth and range of this book is fantastic. Russell tackles many interesting problematics and she does so through an eclectic choice of examples. This will stand out as a major and unique redefinition of the fields of experimental cinema and visual anthropology.”-Ivone Margulies, author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday “This is an extremely important and innovative book. Russell brings together two distinct fields from film studies that have previously remained separate-the avant-garde and ethnographic film-and reconstructs their relationship in such a way that both fields are significantly transformed.”-David E. James, author of Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture

Catherine Russell is Associate Professor of Cinema at Concordia University and the author of Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas.

• Acknowledgments ixPreface xiIntroduction to Experimental Ethnography 1. Another Look 2. Surrealist Ethnography Documentary Before Documentary 3. The Body as the Main Attraction 4. Ethnotopias of Early Cinema 5. Playing Primitive The Undisciplined Gaze 6. Zoology, Pornography, Ethnography 7. Framing People: Structural Film Revisited Other Realities 8. Ecstatic Ethnography: Filming Possession Rituals 9. Archival Apocalypse: Found Footage as Ethnography Conclusion 10. Autoethnography: Journeys of the Self Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

“The breadth and range of this book is fantastic. Russell tackles many interesting problematics and she does so through an eclectic choice of examples. This will stand out as a major and unique redefinition of the fields of experimental cinema and visual anthropology.”-Ivone Margulies, author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday “This is an extremely important and innovative book. Russell brings together two distinct fields from film studies that have previously remained separate-the avant-garde and ethnographic film-and reconstructs their relationship in such a way that both fields are significantly transformed.”-David E. James, author of Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture