{"product_id":"the-third-eye-9780822318408","title":"The Third Eye","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, this title explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Third Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary contribution to both film history and the theorization of the ethnographic gaze. Informed by Rony’s close involvement with contemporary art practice and documentary film production, this fascinating book breaks with familiar genres of academic writing to provide an exciting new take on practices of ethnographic looking, the cultural history of the body, and the racial and sexual politics of visual culture in colonial science.”—Lisa Cartwright, University of Rochester\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Third Eye 3\u003cbr\u003e I. Inscription \u003cbr\u003e 1. Seeing Anthropology: Felix-Louis Regnault, the Narrative of race, and the Performers at the Ethnographic Exposition 21\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Writing of Race in Film: Felix-Louis Regnault and the Ideology of the Ethnographic Film Archive 45\u003cbr\u003e II. Taxidermy \u003cbr\u003e 3. Gestures of Self-Protection: The Picturesque and the Travelogue 77\u003cbr\u003e 4. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography: Robert Flaherty's \u003ci\u003eNanook of the North\u003c\/i\u003e 99\u003cbr\u003e III. Teratology \u003cbr\u003e 5. Time and Redemption in the \"Racial Film\" of the 1920s and 1930s 129\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eKing Kong\u003c\/i\u003e and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema 157\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Passion of Remembrance: Facing the Camera\/Grabbing the Camera 193\u003cbr\u003e Notes 219\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 265\u003cbr\u003e Index 289","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406018453847,"sku":"9780822318408","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822318408.jpg?v=1730494260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-third-eye-9780822318408","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}