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Jean Rouch (French:; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology .
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- Jean Rouch, 31 May 1917, Paris, France
- 1947–2002
- 18 February 2004 (aged 86), Birni-N'Konni, Niger
Jean Rouch was a universally-acclaimed filmmaker, anthropologist, civil engineer, explorer, and storyteller. His sudden death in February 2004 has brought an outpouring of gratitude and memories from friends, colleagues, students and audiences around the world.
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Rouch’s innovative approaches effected more than anthropological film. In the summer of 1960, Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin shot Chronique d’Un Ete’ (Chronicle of a Summer), a film dealing with Parisians’ thoughts and feelings at the end of the Algerian war.
Contents. Jean Rouch. French anthropologist. Learn about this topic in these articles: influence on Godard. In Jean-Luc Godard: Early life and career. …influence on his work of Jean Rouch, an anthropologist who became the first practitioner and theoretician of the documentary-like film style cinéma vérité (“cinema truth”).
For those of us whose lives were touched and inspired by the distinguished and iconoclastic French anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, his death last February was not unexpected: He was 86 years old and had been showing signs of his age.
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In this chapter, I will examine the distinctive character of Jean Rouch's anthropological cinema. The question of vision as method and metaphor is central to this task. For Rouch, like David and Judith MacDougall (the focus of the next case study), is deeply committed to an ‘ocularcentric’ project.
Sep 21, 2007 · The true scope of Jean Rouch's international activities for the advancement of visual anthropology is little known. Few in the field today are aware that he was for more than 10 years the driving force of the Comité international du film ethnographique, where he was secretary-general as of 1958.
