The Ethnographic Optic Victoria O'Donnell and emphasizing the need to

and emphasizing the need to discuss difficult issues such as sexuality

teachers and anyone else who wishes to gain a better understanding of childhood imagination

and embodied nature of religion in the public sphere

Waikiki and many more locations in Hawaii

Includes a preface by folklorist Henry Shoemaker

The Ethnographic Optic Victoria O'Donnell and emphasizing the need toThe Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinema verite documentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire. Focusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais, author Laure Astourian elucidates their striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to scrutinizing their own French urban