Michael M J Fischer

At the Pivot of East and West

Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking, literature, and innovative dance from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017189
• ISBN-10: 147801718X
• Artikelnr.: 66138338

Autorenporträt

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous books, including Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life and Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Reader’s Guide and Manifesto  1
1. Oiled Hinges: Sounds and Silences in Documentary Films of Social Change 
47
2. Filmic Stutter, Taped Counter-Truths, and Musical Sutures: Knots of
Recovery  76
3. White Ink, Family Systems, Forests of Illusion, and Aging: Knots of
Passion  111
4. Miniatures: Small Kindnesses across Poisonous Knowledges  141
5. Blue Widow with Green Stripes: Pivots in Widening Horizons  155
6. Filmic Obsessive Repetitions, Dissociations, and Power Relations  194
7. Meritocracy Blues, Chimeras, and Analytic Monsters  212
Afterword. Portals to the Future: MRT Stations, Universities, and the
Peopling of Technologies  243
Exergue. Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Historical Hinge in Australia  257
Notes  269
References  313
Index  337