Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Turning the gaze of the ethnographic camera back onto itself, bringing the perspective of a third eye to bear on the invention of the primitive other, Rony reveals the collaboration of anthropology and popular culture in Western constructions of race, gender, nation, and empire. Her work demonstrates the significance of these constructions—and, more generally, of ethnographic cinema—for understanding issues of identity.
In films as seemingly dissimilar as Nanook of the North, King Kong, and research footage of West Africans from an 1895 Paris ethnographic exposition, Rony exposes a shared fascination with—and anxiety over—race. She shows how photographic “realism” contributed to popular and scientific notions of evolution, race, and civilization, and how, in turn, anthropology understood and critiqued its own use of photographic technology. Looking beyond negative Western images of the Other, Rony considers performance strategies that disrupt these images—for example, the use of open resistance, recontextualization, and parody in the films of Katherine Dunham and Zora Neale Hurston, or the performances of Josephine Baker. She also draws on the work of contemporary artists such as Lorna Simpson and Victor Masayesva Jr., and writers such as Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin, who unveil the language of racialization in ethnographic cinema.
Elegantly written and richly illustrated, innovative in theory and original in method, The Third Eye is a remarkable interdisciplinary contribution to critical thought in film studies, anthropology, cultural studies, art history, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies.
1 有用 抹茶栗子蛋糕 2022-07-25 16:11:05
Ethnographic Film是“一种具有种族特征的产品”,在这类电影中,非西方人总是被选作“表现/表征“的对象,“The Third Eye”这一比喻揭示了有色人种自我认同的困境——他们意识到自己始终不断被疏远、无法被主流社会群体所同化,活在白人充满好奇与戒备的目光下。Rony在书中成功地揭示了人种学电影中的"凝视"和 "权力"之间的交融关系, "未开化的”有色人种被归类为“ethnogra... Ethnographic Film是“一种具有种族特征的产品”,在这类电影中,非西方人总是被选作“表现/表征“的对象,“The Third Eye”这一比喻揭示了有色人种自我认同的困境——他们意识到自己始终不断被疏远、无法被主流社会群体所同化,活在白人充满好奇与戒备的目光下。Rony在书中成功地揭示了人种学电影中的"凝视"和 "权力"之间的交融关系, "未开化的”有色人种被归类为“ethnographicable"的对象,而那些”文明的“白人则代表可被"historicized"群体,因为只有后者才有资格拥有"档案、文字、历史、文明和技术”。 (展开)
0 有用 孤泪君 2023-04-27 23:46:49 美国
visual anthropology的经典作品。考察人类学的他者是如何通过视觉科技和手段来呈现的。third eye的概念很有趣,尤其是对于“被观察的他者”来说,意识到这一点是有抵抗“认识论暴力”的意义的。但仍然是在西方的框架里play with representation.
0 有用 吃饱了撑着才 2020-10-12 14:21:26
visual anthropology and gaze
0 有用 XiaoGu 2018-12-10 19:43:35
#Warwick# King Kong and the monster in ethnographic cinema
0 有用 aRaRaR 2021-06-03 08:18:35
相见恨晚
0 有用 孤泪君 2023-04-27 23:46:49 美国
visual anthropology的经典作品。考察人类学的他者是如何通过视觉科技和手段来呈现的。third eye的概念很有趣,尤其是对于“被观察的他者”来说,意识到这一点是有抵抗“认识论暴力”的意义的。但仍然是在西方的框架里play with representation.
1 有用 抹茶栗子蛋糕 2022-07-25 16:11:05
Ethnographic Film是“一种具有种族特征的产品”,在这类电影中,非西方人总是被选作“表现/表征“的对象,“The Third Eye”这一比喻揭示了有色人种自我认同的困境——他们意识到自己始终不断被疏远、无法被主流社会群体所同化,活在白人充满好奇与戒备的目光下。Rony在书中成功地揭示了人种学电影中的"凝视"和 "权力"之间的交融关系, "未开化的”有色人种被归类为“ethnogra... Ethnographic Film是“一种具有种族特征的产品”,在这类电影中,非西方人总是被选作“表现/表征“的对象,“The Third Eye”这一比喻揭示了有色人种自我认同的困境——他们意识到自己始终不断被疏远、无法被主流社会群体所同化,活在白人充满好奇与戒备的目光下。Rony在书中成功地揭示了人种学电影中的"凝视"和 "权力"之间的交融关系, "未开化的”有色人种被归类为“ethnographicable"的对象,而那些”文明的“白人则代表可被"historicized"群体,因为只有后者才有资格拥有"档案、文字、历史、文明和技术”。 (展开)
0 有用 aRaRaR 2021-06-03 08:18:35
相见恨晚
0 有用 吃饱了撑着才 2020-10-12 14:21:26
visual anthropology and gaze
0 有用 XiaoGu 2018-12-10 19:43:35
#Warwick# King Kong and the monster in ethnographic cinema