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L eviathan and the Experience of Sensory Ethnography
Author(s) -
Pavsek Christopher
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12056
Subject(s) - ethnography , presupposition , sensory system , aesthetics , sociology , art , communication , psychology , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , cognitive psychology
This article explores the genre of “sensory ethnography” through an investigation of the film L eviathan (2012, L ucien C astaing‐ T aylor and V éréna P aravel) and the critical discourse that has arisen around the film. It argues that even as the film dynamically explores new aesthetic territory, some of its basic presuppositions about the ability for film to convey experience and to represent the sensory world remain unexamined for the ways in which they are themselves conventional.