Beyond Observation: A History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film

Author:   Paul Henley
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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Pages:   568
Publication Date:   21 January 2020
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Author:   Paul Henley
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
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9781526131362


ISBN 10:   1526131366
Pages:   568
Publication Date:   21 January 2020
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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 -- .

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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 -- .

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