E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten
Henley Beyond observation
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4729-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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A history of authorship in ethnographic film
E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten
Reihe: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4729-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
A comprehensive history of ethnographic film since cinema began in 1895. It shows how the genre evolved out of reportage, exotic melodrama and travelogues prior to the Second World War into a more academic form of documentary in the post-war period.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
List of figures
General Introduction: Authorship, Praxis, Observation, Ethnography
PART I: HISTORIES: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Introduction
1. The long prehistory of ethnographic film
2. Expeditions, melodrama and the birth of ethnofiction
3. The invisible Author: films of re-enactment in the postwar period
4. Records, not movies: the early films of John Marshall and Timothy Asch
5. Reflexivity and participation: the films of David and Judith MacDougall in Africa and Australia
6. Entangled voices: the complexities of collaborative authorship
7. The subject as Author: indigenous media and the Video nas Aldeias project
PART II: AUTHORS: THREE KEY FIGURES
Introduction
8. Jean Rouch: sharing anthropology
9. Robert Gardner: beyond the burden of the real
10. Colin Young: the principles of Observational Cinema
PART III: TELEVISION AS META-AUTHOR: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IN BRITAIN
Introduction
11. Ways of doing ethnographic film on British television
12. Beyond the ‘disappearing world’ – and back again
13. The decline of ethnographic film on British television
PART IV: BEYOND OBSERVATION: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Introduction
14. The evolution of Observational Cinema: recent films of David and Judith MacDougall
15. Negative capability and the flux of life: films of the Sensory Ethnography Lab
16. Participatory perspectives
AN EPILOGUE: Return to Kiriwina: the ethnographic film-maker as Author
APPENDIX: British Television Documentaries produced in collaboration with Ethnographic Researchers
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Film references