Innocence lost: Evaluating an experimental era in ethnographic film

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Peter Loizos. Innovation in Ethnographic Film. From Innocence to Self-Consciousness...decade later. But in the study of ethnographic film acknowledgment of such tendencies...nascent. Back then instructors in ethnographic film courses generally designated two...

THE `DISCOVERY' OF THE HIMBA: THE POLITICS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM MAKING.

Africa;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......increase in literature about ethnographic film-making, there has been little discussion of ethnographic film and its relationship with television...the fundamental dilemma of the ethnographic film screened on television is that...

Transcultural Cinema

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......documentarian's dilemma. The problem of ethnographic film looms large through many of these...contemporary discussions. Older forms of ethnographic film, from the very early experiments...experiential perspective, so can ethnographic film, thus allowing a new kind of description...

Course file for "Documentary film, visual anthropology, and visual...

Journal of Film and Video;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......examined, in this specific instance, ethnographic film and the construction of the Other...counterclaims made with respect to ethnographic film have become prominent in recent years...which is frequently elided in the way ethnographic film (as the fieldwork of visual anthropology...

A Future for Ethnographic Film?

Journal of Film and Video;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM IS A CONTESTED GENRE, not unlike the documentary. The majority opinion is that an ethnographic film is any documentary that focuses on non-Western people (see Heider). The adjective "ethnographic" is used in a very loose manner...

Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......D. Lewis (ed.). Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film. London and New York: Routledge...critiquing the 'ethnographic gaze' and the ethnographic film project in general. I found Nichols...using the film to teach a critique of ethnographic film for fifteen years), he then offers...

American Pimp/American Pimp: Raw Outtakes and the Hard Truth

Journal of American Folklore;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......restricting the genre category of ethnographic film and questions the conflation of...documentary films into the category of ethnographic film stems from a desire to preserve...Underlying Ruby's effort to keep ethnographic film relevant within anthropological research...

Bringing to Light: A History of Ethnographic Filmmaking at the Australian...

Journal of American Folklore;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......on the back of the title page: "No ethnographic film is merely a record of another society...who characterizes the evolution of ethnographic film from 1955 to 1985 as a sweep from...argues in his book Innovation in Ethnographic Film that the shift in practice came about...

DOCUMENTARIAN TO PRESENT HISTORY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 7, 2006 ;     206 words ......following news release: Folklorist Matt Bradley will speak on ethnographic film as part of the Utah State University Department of English...Alumni Center. Bradley will present a brief history of "ethnographic film," which is the common term for documentary film that focuses...

Rethinking Visual Anthropology.(Book Review)

Oceania;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......anthropology should not be exhausted by ethnographic film but should embrace a broader range...argument seeks to reposition or bracket ethnographic film within the frame of an '... anthropology...significant provocation to contemporary ethnographic film makers, however it is ...

New ethnographic film: From wild West sex to weather satellites

The Village Voice;  November 16, 1999 ;     499 words ...Global Village People NEW ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM- FROM. WILD WEST SEX TO WEATHER SATELLITES THE MARGARET...entertainment. Two films get new angles on the new-style ethnographic film, the transvestite sub-cult doc. Paradise Bent returns...

(book reviews)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......initially to show the development of ethnographic film in Nordic countries with reference...inclusion of Henley's overview of ethnographic film-making and its future in Britain...production, evident in the films shown in ethnographic film festivals. She distinguishes films...

Picturing culture: explorations of film and anthropology.(Review)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Picturing culture calls for 'change'. Ethnographic film production has been dominated by...anthropologists who will take control of ethnographic film, and not cede it to film-makers...anthropology (p. 167). Moreover, if ethnographic film-makers are to 'behave like anthropologists...

ETHNOGRAPHY, MADE MAGIC

Santa Fe Reporter;  February 14, 2007 ;     637 words ......ethnography (Cave is actually Davaa's master's project in ethnographic film), with the camera probing the Batchuluuns' everyday existence-fr...line. We end up with a combination of Italian neorealism, ethnographic film and dreamy Buddhist fable. Cinematographer Daniel Schnauer...

Spirit possession, power, and the absent presence of Islam: re-viewing Les...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Africanist anthropologist film-maker as well as historian of ethnographic film, it is a 'truly foundational film, without doubt one of...release, Lmf remains one of the most discussed works in the ethnographic film canon, not just on account of its qualities as a film but...