Anthropology and Cinema: Visual Representations of Human Rights, Displacement and Resistance in Come Back Africa by Lionel Rogosin

Grassilli, Mariagiulia (2007) Anthropology and Cinema: Visual Representations of Human Rights, Displacement and Resistance in Come Back Africa by Lionel Rogosin. Visual Anthropology, 20 (2,3). pp. 221-232. ISSN 0894-9468

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Abstract

This article is devoted to reevaluating the anthropological importance of the work of Lionel Rogosin, whose films, like those of Jean Rouch and Robert Flaherty before him, reflect a symbiosis between cinema and visual research. Focused on apartheid, civil rights, and displacement, his filmmaking activity includes such important titles as Come Back Africa [2004], on the apartheid in South Africa during the 1950s, and Onthe Bowery [1956], located in inner-city New York in the 1960s. I believe his work should be positioned within anthropology and cinema, and analyzed for use of an approach of the ‘‘participant camera.’’

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Media, Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 23 Oct 2025 12:31
Last Modified: 30 Oct 2025 19:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100749
DOI: 10.1080/08949460601152831

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