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Article: Films explore women's rights, religion, drugs.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 28, 2007
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Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard
The idea that a documentary can be both educational and entertaining seems to go without saying, but nonfictional films haven't always been given their proper due.
Especially among academics.
Between the years of 1936 and 1938, the late New York cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead helped chart new territory by using film to document her field work in Bali. She made several movies about Balinese dance and later produced films on cross-cultural child rearing and other subjects.
Years later, on her 75th birthday, Mead was honored for her pioneering commitment. The American Museum of Natural ...