Paul Henley

Beyond observation (eBook, ePUB)

A history of authorship in ethnographic film

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526131379
• Artikelnr.: 58561588

Autorenporträt

Paul Henley is Professorial Research Fellow at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester and an ethnographic film-maker. He was previously the founding director of the Granada Centre, 1987-2014

Inhaltsangabe

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 Textual references Film
references