Griffiths Nomadic Cinema

A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-54988-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Decolonial Praxis
Part I. Prehistories and Contexts of the Expedition Film
1. Medieval Cartography and the Repressed Imaginary of the Exploitation Expedition Film
2. The Dialectics of Adventure: Counterhistory and the Explorers Club in New York City
Part II. The Small Expedition Film and Archival Return
3. Intersubjectivity and Selfhood in the Lone-Wolf Expedition
4. Southwest Imaginaries: Native American Identity and Digital Return
Part III. Affective Geography and Spatial Epistemologies
5. Cinema in Extremis: Monumentality, Mount Everest, and Indigenous Intermediaries
6. Cinema as Visual Small Talk: The Anxious Optic of the 1926 Morden-Clark Expedition Across Central Asia
Conclusion: Virtual Reality, Indigenous Futurism, and the Legacy of the Expedition Film
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Griffiths is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002), Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (2008), and Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America (2016), all published by Columbia University Press. Griffiths received a Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research for this book.