Overview
- An innovative approach bridging anthropology with cinema studies
- Fills a much-needed gap in the literature through its focus on “on-demand” media, which constitutes a significant portion of contemporary media practice
- Connects on-demand, family, and vernacular cinema with not only ethnological research, but also the overlapping field of memory studies
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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On-Demand Ethnographers
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Producers and Produced
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Forms and Circulations
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About this book
Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency. Videos are now made by production units that are at times composed of families, churches, musical groups, community associations or other institutions. Thus, on-demand videos produced and distributed within local and atypical networks profoundly shape contemporary urban imaginaries. This book explores the intertwined relations among infrastructure, technology, and modernity through an ordinary, yet little studied field of "on-demand" audiovisual production, which involves processes of negotiation and interaction between clients and commissioned video makers. On-demand films are considered as a space of collaboration and self-representation, that allows to reflect on the potential of fiction, artifice, and montage to render material desires, aspirations, and ideas of the future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal is a Professor and researcher at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos in El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico. She is the author of Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia ( 2017). Her current research includes work on popular photographic and audiovisual archives in Michoacán, Mexico and La Paz, Bolivia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnographies of ‘On Demand’ Films
Book Subtitle: Anthropological Explorations of Commissioned Audiovisual Productions
Editors: Alex Vailati, Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78911-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78910-7Published: 01 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78913-8Published: 02 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78911-4Published: 30 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Ethnography, Media Sociology, Sociology, general, Media and Communication