Tiré du site Internet de University of Minnesota Press: "Brian Hochman shows how widespread interest in recording vanishing races and disappearing cultures influenced audiovisual innovation, experimentation, and use in the U.S. Drawing extensively on seldom-seen archival sources…
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world's primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings--modern media in their technological infancy--…
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American writers and anthropologists believed that evolutionary forces had pushed the world's primitive races to the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonograph recordings were specially suited to…
'Out of Our Minds' shows explorers and ethnographers in Africa during colonial expansion were far from rational - often meeting their hosts in extraordinary states influenced by opiates, alcohol, sex, fever, fatigue, andviolence.