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Beyond observation A history of authorship in ethnographic film /

Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the 'ethnographicness' of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exotic culture - the popular view - nor because it has apparently not been authored - a long-standing academic view - but rather because it adhere...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henley, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [s.l.] : Manchester University Press, 2020.
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  • AcknowledgementsList of figuresGeneral Introduction: Authorship, Praxis, Observation, EthnographyPART I: HISTORIES: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIntroduction1. The long prehistory of ethnographic film2. Expeditions, melodrama and the birth of ethnofiction3. The invisible Author: films of re-enactment in the postwar period4. Records, not movies: the early films of John Marshall and Timothy Asch5. Reflexivity and participation: the films of David and Judith MacDougall in Africa and Australia6. Entangled voices: the complexities of collaborative authorship7. The subject as Author: Indigenous media and the Video nas Aldeias projectPART II: AUTHORS: THREE KEY FIGURESIntroduction8. Jean Rouch: sharing anthropology9. Robert Gardner: beyond the burden of the real10. Colin Young: the principles of Observational CinemaPART III: TELEVISION AS META-AUTHOR: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IN BRITAINIntroduction11. Ways of doing ethnographic film on British television12. Beyond the 'disappearing world' - and back again13. The decline of ethnographic film on British televisionPART IV: BEYOND OBSERVATION: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYIntroduction14. The evolution of Observational Cinema: recent films of David and Judith MacDougall15. Negative capability and the flux of life: films of the Sensory Ethnography Lab16. Participatory perspectivesAN EPILOGUE: Return to Kiriwina: the ethnographic film-maker as AuthorAPPENDIX: British Television Documentaries produced in collaboration with Ethnographic ResearchersTextual referencesFilm references