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Beyond observation : a history of authorship in ethnographic film / Paul Henley
(Anthropology, creative practice and ethnography)

Material Type E-Book
Publisher Manchester : Manchester University Press
Year [2020]
Language English
Size 1 online resource (xx, 542 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

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9781526131379

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Contents General introduction: authorship, praxis, observation, ethnography
Part I. Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century
Introduction
The long prehistory of ethnographic film
Travel films, melodrama and the origins of ethnofiction
The invisible author: films of re-enactment in the post-war period
Records, not movies: the early films of John Marshall and Timothy Asch
Reflexivity and participation: the films of David and Judith MacDougall in Africa and Australia
Entangled voices: the complexities of collaborative authorship
The subject as author: indigenous media and the Video nas Aldeias project
Part II. Authors: three key figures
Introduction
Jean Rouch: sharing anthropology
Robert Gardner: beyond the burden of the real
Colin Young: the principles of Observational Cinema
Part III. Television as meta-author: ethnographic film in Britain
Introduction
Ways of doing ethnographic film on British television
Beyond the 'disappearing world' - and back again
The decline of ethnographic film on British television
Part IV. Beyond observation: ethnographic film in the twenty-first century
Introduction
The evolution of Observational Cinema: recent films of David and Judith MacDougall
Negative capability and the flux of life: films of the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Participatory perspectives
An epilogue: return to Kiriwina - the ethnographic film-maker as author
Appendix: British television documentaries produced in collaboration with ethnographic researchers
Notes A history of ethnographic film from the birth of cinema in 1895 until 2015 that analyses a large number of films made in a broad range of styles, on a broad range of topics and in many different parts of the world. For the period before the Second World War, it considers films made in reportage, exotic melodrama and travelogue genres as well as more conventionally ethnographic films made for academic and state-funded purposes. It then describes how after the war, ethnographic film-makers developed various different modes of authorship inspired by the ideas of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner and Colin Young. It also considers films made from the 1970s by the indigenous subjects themselves as well as those made for British television up until the 1990s. In the final part, it examines various possible models for the future of ethnographic film
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-524) and index
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Authors *Henley, Paul,
Subjects FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc
BSH:Electronic books
LCSH:Ethnographic films -- Authorship  All Subject Search
LCSH:Ethnographic films -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
FREE:Ethnographic films
Classification DC23:301
ID ED00004070
ISBN 9781526131379

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