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Introduction c. melinda levin and alicia re cruz the history of e thnogr aphic fil m is an middle-class suburb of Chicago, and presents extended dialogue between anthropology and his digital interactive ethnography experiment documentary cinema. This discourse has em- as a way to instigate viewers’ participation in braced and nurtured the art, social relevance, the making of the anthropological analysis. Like and academic research of both fields. It has his fellow authors working in different modes also struggled through the tensions of storytell- and communities, he addresses crucial issues ing forms, ultimate goals, and audience. The within academic anthropology: What is beyond articles that make up this special issue on film “cultural understanding”? What should we and anthropology focus on several specific in- do once we “understand” cultures? How does stances of this relationship. The authors delve one utilize tradition, expectations, and tools into the anthropology–film dialogue by observ - to best engage different personal, political, ing how the globalizing processes demand a and economic arenas? These articles propose repositioning of these two disciplines dealing an articulation of film and anthropology that with the human factor. This latest chapter in engages not only the viewer but also, through the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Film and Video University of Illinois Press

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
ISSN
1934-6018

Abstract

c. melinda levin and alicia re cruz the history of e thnogr aphic fil m is an middle-class suburb of Chicago, and presents extended dialogue between anthropology and his digital interactive ethnography experiment documentary cinema. This discourse has em- as a way to instigate viewers’ participation in braced and nurtured the art, social relevance, the making of the anthropological analysis. Like and academic research of both fields. It has his fellow authors working in different modes also struggled through the tensions of storytell- and communities, he addresses crucial issues ing forms, ultimate goals, and audience. The within academic anthropology: What is beyond articles that make up this special issue on film “cultural understanding”? What should we and anthropology focus on several specific in- do once we “understand” cultures? How does stances of this relationship. The authors delve one utilize tradition, expectations, and tools into the anthropology–film dialogue by observ - to best engage different personal, political, ing how the globalizing processes demand a and economic arenas? These articles propose repositioning of these two disciplines dealing an articulation of film and anthropology that with the human factor. This latest chapter in engages not only the viewer but also, through the

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Journal of Film and VideoUniversity of Illinois Press

Published: Jun 14, 2008

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