Appropriating images: the semiotics of visual representation
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The Semiotics of
Visual Representation
by
Keyan G Tomaselli
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intervention press
Contents
Foreword xi
byDickChalfen
(Center for Visual Anthropology, Temple University)
Preface: An autobiographical note xvii
Introduction: The Visual Story—a world apart? 1
A Brief History of Ethnographic Film-Making: the pioneers 2
Looking at Africa: the dark Other 5
Looking at the Rest of the World 7
Visual Anthropology: explaining ethnographic film in print 10
Film Theory: an anthropological orphan 12
Visual Sociology: the homeless orphan 19
Semiotics: a new synthesising lens 21
Chapter 1: What is Semiotics? Defusing the minefield
of terms 29
Making sense: back to basics 30
Elements of Semiotics 39
Reality: the struggle for the sign 44
Documentary as a Code 46
Chapter 2: Realism, Myth and Reception 51
Form, Coding and Style 51
How Real is Realism? 51
Phaneroscopy: the wide angle lens 55
Slots, Phaneroscopy and Thick Description 59
Reality: the imagined lens 65
The Concept of Myth 66
Myth and Media 70
Social Propaganda, Political Propaganda 73
Reception: propaganda vs information 74
Political Intertexts 80
Ritual: rearticulating ontologies : 81
Phanerons, Monsters and Sudden Death 83
Chapter 3: The Other in Film: Tribes and Tribalism 89
Academic Myths and Racism 89
Visual Imperialism 91
Social Science as Myth 92
The Myths of Tribe and Tribalism :
misunderstanding African societies 96
Adventures into the past 97
Tribal Connotations: violence, savagery 99
Tribe as Tourist-speak 102
Chapter 4: Power, Exploitation and
Anthropological Responsibility 107
The Ethical Conundrum 107
Showcasing Anthropology 113
Exploiting Primitives and Ex-Primitives :
copyright, ownership, audiences 115
Political Responsibility 118
Reassessment of Visual Anthropology 119
Chapter 5: Signposting Semiotics in Studying the Other 123
Meta-Discipline 127
The Significant Agenda: the grounding of the
sciences of signs 127
Distinguishing Semiology and Semiotics 128
The Wood and the Trees: semiology 129
The Wood, the Trees and the Timber: semiotics 130
Outline and Division of Interpretants:
the cultural connection 131
Interpretants: how we make sense of signs 134
Producing Africa: the context of semiotics 136
Recovering Contexts 147
Combining Lexicons 148
Chapter 6: Trends in Visual Anthropology 151
Documentary, Ethnography and the Impression of Reality 153
Documentary and the Impression of Reality 154
How Real is Realism? 155
Naturalism 155
Distinguishing Between Ethnographic Film
and Documentary 156
Technology: encoding and reception 156
Encoding Reality 159
Institutional Considerations 160
Anthropological Knowledge and Documentary Film 161
The Pluralist View 163
Diaries/Notebooks/Descriptive 164
Observational/Descriptive 164
Cinema Verite 165
Participatory/Shared Anthropology 165
Didactic 166
Processual 167
Character narration 167
Conceptual/narration 167
Testimonial 167
Seasonal Cycles 167
Film-maker as Griot 167
Subject-generated or Indigenous Media 168
Sociotherapy 170
Documentation Modality 170
Explanatory Mode 170
Explanation Rejected 170
Context Enrichment 171
ExperienceA heoretical Understandings 171
The Exclusivist View 172
What Constitutes a Community? 177
Ethnographic Film and Surreality 178
The Scientifically Unthinkable 180
Chapter 7: Filmic Ethnography
Versus the Pluralist View 187
A Composite Approach 188
Integration of Form, Process and Content
in Ethnographic Film 189
Ethnographic Film and Production Principles 190
Holism 190
Patience 195
Cin6-Trance 196
The Ethnographic Presence 197
The Ethnographic Present 199
Film Technique and Interpretations of Truth 200
Participant Observation, Pertinent Distance,
Space and Interaction 204
Reflexivity: admitting assumptions 206
Return to Basics I: re-examining reflexivity 207
Return to Basics II: re-examining ethnographic events 213
Reflexivity HI: viewers entering the screen 216
Hypermediating Film: beyond reflexivity 217
Editing as Imposition 220
Films of Cultures 222
The Us Them Dichotomy:
Where to We draw the line around Them? 224
Purpose 225
Definitions of Semiotics of Visual Anthropology
and Ethnographic Film 226
Chapter 8: Case Studies 231
Appropriating Discourses: Anthropology in Entertainment 231
Maids and Madams—Servants of Apartheid 233
with Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
Classified People: Metaphorical Borders 241
with Maureen Eke
Girls Apart—Comparative Description 253
Chapter 9: Towards Ethical Film Making
and Crew-Subject Interactions 265
Engagement With Subject-Communities:
Relocating the Scholar 268
How to ensure Accountability of Crews/Facilitators
of Subject-Communities? 272
References 281
Books and articles 281
Films 313
Index 321
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