Ethnographies of 'on demand' films : anthropological explorations of commissioned audiovisual productions / / Alex Vailati, Gabriela Zamorano Villareal, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Visual anthropology
• Persona (resp. second.): VailatiAlex; ZamoranoGabriela
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Mapping Liminal Fields -- Grasping On-Demand Movies -- Invisible Cinema -- Between Public and Private -- The Authority of Infrastructure -- On-Demand Visual Economies -- References -- Part I: On-Demand Ethnographers -- Chapter 2: The Ethnographer as Merchant. Making Commissioned Home Movies in Postsocialist Romania -- Filming on Demand: Reversal of the Filmmaker's Authority -- Diversity of Vernacular Filmic Forms -- The Social Life of Videotapes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Walking Shadows Rap: The Enchantment of Video and the Anthropologist as an Audiovisual Mediator -- Technology of Words: Arranging a Research Project -- Shadow Walk: Filming as an Ethnographic Place -- Scraps of Time: Thinking Through Editing -- As a Methodology Analysis -- As Political Regulator -- As Captivation Technology -- Indigenizing Hip-Hop: Final Considerations -- References -- Chapter 4: Between Institutional Policies and Ethnographic Gazes: Reflections on Audiovisual Practices in a Brazilian Cultural Heritage Registration Process -- Registration of Intangible Heritage: Heritage Amidst Dichotomies, Hierarchies, and Reification -- Audiovisual Material in the Registration of Intangible Heritage -- The Registration Process and Making of the Documentary "Campina Grande Street Market: Brazilian Cultural Heritage" -- Brief History of the Street Market Registration -- Accompanying the Production of the Street Market Registration Documentary -- The Editing of the Street Market Registration Documentary -- Final Considerations: A Video Between Institutional Policies and Ethnographic Gazes -- References -- Part II: Producers and Produced -- Chapter 5: Videoclips of Prestes as New Forms of Ostentation and Exchange in La Paz, Bolivia. ; Gran Poder: Waste, Abundance, and Emerging Wealthy Classes -- On-Demand Video Studios: Local Economies and Esthetic Appropriations -- Preparing and Shooting a Videoclip -- Videoclips: Esthetics and Exchange -- Circulation: From Material Exchanges to Occupying Cities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Shooting Elites: An Ethnography of Wedding Film Production for Elites -- Weddings Reproductions -- Shooting Elites -- Professional Authorships -- The Social Life of Wedding Film -- The Production of the Wedding -- Reinstituting an Elitist Society -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: The Circulation of Low-Budget Videos in the Football System -- Introduction: Defining Videos On Demand -- Lion Killers: The Protagonists of Football Videos On Demand -- Mediators in the Production of Low-Budget On-Demand Videos -- One Video, Many Meanings -- Conventions and Meanings -- Final Considerations: Democratization of the Media and Agency -- References -- Chapter 8: Expanding the Family Frame: Social Specialists, Mediated Experiences, and Gendered Images of Mobility in Transnational Wedding Videos -- Introducing Transnational Wedding Videos Between Senegal and Europe -- The Videographer as a Ritual and Social Specialist -- The Aesthetics of Respectability: The Film-Souvenir as a Fictionalized, Imagined Place -- Circulating Weddings: Memory, Waste, and Mediated Experience -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part III: Forms and Circulations -- Chapter 9: Multiple Videographies: From Promotional Documentaries to Music Videos of Andean Popular Music in the Peruvian Videosphere -- Municipal Promotional Videos and Performative Modes: "Dias de Huanta" -- Local Videographers and Videos of Festivities -- Freelance Music Video Producers and Music Recording/Video Production Microenterprises -- Multiple Videographies: Layers of Performativity, Networks and Affects. ; References -- Videography -- Chapter 10: Aesthetic Norms and Motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: Comic Skits and Mobile Journalism of the Everyday in Zimbabwe -- Introduction and Background -- Video Activism in the Context of Socio-political Advocacy -- Classifying Comic Skits: Video Artivism as Alternative Filmmaking -- The Aesthetics of Subaltern Filmmaking -- Mocking the State as a Way of Speaking Truth to Power -- Funding, Professional Filters and Effect on Creativity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Of Archons and Amateurs: Commissioned Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema -- Introduction -- Commissioned Filmmaking as a Contractual Relationship -- Commissioned Filmmaking as Mixed Authorship -- Countervisuality and "Dispositifs" of Infiltration -- Commissioned Filmmaking as Archivisation -- References -- Chapter 12: On-Demand Postscript: Emergent Engagements in the Anthropology of Images -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethnographies of 'on demand' films
• ISBN: 3-030-78911-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502652603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II