Table of Contents

Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman, and Charles Warren Part I. Overviews and General Topics 1. Some Notes on Robert Gardner Eliot Weinberger 2. In Flight with Robert Gardner Tom Conley 3. Colors Fanny Howe 4. Aesthetic Form and Ethnographic Discourse Daniel Morgan 5. Robert Gardner and Jean Rouch: Regards Croises Maxime Scheinfeigel 6. Robert Gardner's Reality Charles Warren 7. To Give, To Take, and To Return Gayatri Chatterjee 8. Ethno-Cine-Poet: Robert Gardner and Experimental Film Kathryn Ramey 9. A Revolution in Favor of Television: WCVB-TV and Robert Gardner's Screening Room Brian L. Frye 10. On Shamanism and Other Encounters: A Conversation with Robert Gardner in Mexico Carlos Y. Flores and Antonio Zirion 11. Returning with Robert Gardner to the Baliem Valley, 1988--89 Susan Meiselas Part II. Looking at Individual Films 12. First Encounters: An Essay on Dead Birds and Robert Gardner Charles Musser 13. Allegory and Gender Representation in Rivers of Sand Mauro Bucci 14. Word against Flesh in Rivers of Sand Irina Leimbacher 15. Look At Me! Deep Hearts and the Vertiginous Self Murray Pomerance 16. Nomadic Metrosexuals: Framing Beauty, Editing Ritual, and Exhibiting Masculinity in Deep Hearts Ricardo E. Zulueta 17. Film, Matter, and Spirit: Forest of Bliss Richard Allen 18. The Same Thing from Different Angles: Resituating Forest of Bliss Julia Yezbick 19. Hand Eye Coordination: Robert Gardner's Artist Films Richard Deming 20. Learning from Catalonia Bruce Jenkins 21. Dead Birds Re-Encountered: A Journey of Return William Rothman Acknowledgments Credits Appendices Robert Gardner Biographical Sketch Robert Gardner Filmography Publications by Robert Gardner Books about Robert Gardner's Work Contributors Index

About the Author

Rebecca Meyers is a filmmaker and Academic Film Programmer at Bucknell University, where she teaches in the Film/Media Studies program. She worked with Robert Gardner as editor on his late films. William Rothman is Professor of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami. Among his numerous books are three published by SUNY Press: Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition and as editor, Cavell on Film and Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, and Jean Rouch. Charles Warren is Lecturer on Film at Boston University and Associate of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University. He writes widely on film and has edited many books, including Gardner's Making Dead Birds, Just Representations, and Human Documents: Eight Photographers.

Reviews

"[Gardner's] fusion of art and anthropology is vividly and convincingly addressed in the book's varied, detailed, and historical examination of his work ... Highly recommended." - CHOICE "Impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well organized and presented, Looking with Robert Gardner is a compendium of seminal, insightful, thoughtful and thought-provoking scholarship." - Midwest Book Review "This book is a monumental, fearless, and insightful contribution of critique that looks both with and at Gardner's works as a whole." - Catherine Summerhayes, author of Google Earth: Outreach and Activism "Looking with Robert Gardner introduces new and exciting voices into the dialogue about the renowned ethnographic and documentary filmmaker. The book contains very close readings of many of his films and suggests fresh approaches for analyzing those as well as ethnographic films in general." - Ilisa Barbash, coeditor of The Cinema of Robert Gardner