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Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner's achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.

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[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

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

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

""[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

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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.

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