Nomadic Cinema - A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film

Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.

About the author

Alison Griffiths is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002), Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (2008), and Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America (2016), all published by Columbia University Press. Griffiths received a Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research for this book.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Griffiths, Griffiths Alison
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9780231192583
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19258-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Social Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, performing arts; social science