Lorraine Mortimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 126065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Mortimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortimer |
| SIGNATURE | MORTIMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Texture of Events and the Stuff of Dreams: Jean Rouch at the Heart of Film and Anthropology
Too little known in the English‐speaking world, Jean Rouch died in 2004, leaving a prolific body of work. Influenced by the surrealists, by dance, cinema and music, his ‘shared anthropology’ and filmmaking began when he was an engineer in colonial West Africa during World War II—through friendship with African public works employees and revolt over the working and living conditions of the people forced to labour. Rouch saw his engineering, anthro…
We are the Dance: Cinema, Death and the Imaginary in the Thought of Edgar Morin
A colleague of Roland Barthes at the CNRS in the 1950s and cowriter and friend of Cornelius Castoriadis until the latter's death, Edgar Morin has until recently been too little known in the English-speaking world. In an oeuvre that spans half a century, attempting to combine in ongoing dialogue the `humanities' and `sciences', Morin has written on scientific method, fundamental anthropology, politics, contemporary life and popular culture. He is …
Les aventures de l'esprit et la chaleur vivante: A new encounter with Simone de Beauvoir
Sweet finitude: Relative Utopias with live inhabitants
The charm of morality: Frank Capra and his cinema
We are the Dance: Cinema, Death and the Imaginary in the Thought of Edgar Morin
A colleague of Roland Barthes at the CNRS in the 1950s and cowriter and friend of Cornelius Castoriadis until the latter's death, Edgar Morin has until recently been too little known in the English-speaking world. In an oeuvre that spans half a century, attempting to combine in ongoing dialogue the `humanities' and `sciences', Morin has written on scientific method, fundamental anthropology, politics, contemporary life and popular culture. He is …
Sweet finitude: Relative Utopias with live inhabitants
The charm of morality: Frank Capra and his cinema
Sweet finitude: Relative Utopias with live inhabitants
Les aventures de l'esprit et la chaleur vivante: A new encounter with Simone de Beauvoir
We are the Dance: Cinema, Death and the Imaginary in the Thought of Edgar Morin
A colleague of Roland Barthes at the CNRS in the 1950s and cowriter and friend of Cornelius Castoriadis until the latter's death, Edgar Morin has until recently been too little known in the English-speaking world. In an oeuvre that spans half a century, attempting to combine in ongoing dialogue the `humanities' and `sciences', Morin has written on scientific method, fundamental anthropology, politics, contemporary life and popular culture. He is …
The Texture of Events and the Stuff of Dreams: Jean Rouch at the Heart of Film and Anthropology
Too little known in the English‐speaking world, Jean Rouch died in 2004, leaving a prolific body of work. Influenced by the surrealists, by dance, cinema and music, his ‘shared anthropology’ and filmmaking began when he was an engineer in colonial West Africa during World War II—through friendship with African public works employees and revolt over the working and living conditions of the people forced to labour. Rouch saw his engineering, anthro…
Art (5 works) · Art history (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)