Jean Rouch: The semiotics of ethnographic film

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  • Irene Portis-Winner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2013.41.2-3.06

Keywords:

film, ethno-time, ethno-fiction, ethno-truth, twoness

Abstract

Jean Rouch (1917–2004) is considered to be the greatest ethnographic filmmaker in the world. His films, which focus primarily on the Songhay of the Upper Niger in Africa, have fundamentally changed the spirit, goals, and methods of ethnographic filmmaking. I ask how Rouch established contact with those he filmed, how his invented semio-ethnic terms and his understanding of twoness and the other informed his practice, and in what sense his films were “shared anthropology” (his term).

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Published

2013-11-07

How to Cite

Portis-Winner, I. (2013). Jean Rouch: The semiotics of ethnographic film. Sign Systems Studies, 41(2/3), 230–240. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2013.41.2-3.06

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