Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image

This book explores a new anthropology of the moving image, combining essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology. It builds on experimental formats and engages with debates on epistemologies, relational aesthetics, materiality, sensory ethnography, and observational and participatory cinema. Arnd Schneider critically revisits Baudrillard's idea of the simulacrum and the hyperreal, engages with new media theory, and elaborates on the potential of the Writing Culture critique for moving image practices.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 194 pages
\n Publication date: 02 June 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of the moving image, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to its study. Drawing upon a diverse range of essays, it advocates for a new anthropology of the moving image that encompasses time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology. By building upon recent efforts to experiment with innovative formats, the book engages in critical dialogues on epistemologies of ethnography, relational aesthetics, materiality, sensory ethnography, and observational and participatory cinema.

In his insightful critique, Arnd Schneider delves into the concept of the simulacrum and the hyperreal, engaging with cutting-edge media theory and expanding upon the potential of the Writing Culture critique for moving image practices that straddle the boundaries between art and anthropology. This comprehensive work serves as a vital resource for scholars and practitioners alike, spanning the fields of visual anthropology, film and media studies, and visual studies.

Through its multidisciplinary lens, this book sheds light on the complex interplay between technology, culture, and representation, providing a rich and nuanced understanding of the moving image in our contemporary world. It offers valuable insights into the ways in which the moving image shapes our perceptions, experiences, and understandings of the world, and serves as a catalyst for further exploration and debate in these fields.

\n Weight: 370g\n
Dimension: 155 x 233 x 14 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367253684\n \n