Paul Henley

Beyond observation (eBook, ePUB)

A history of authorship in ethnographic film

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the 'ethnographicness' of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exotic culture - the popular view - nor because it has apparently not been authored - a long-standing academic view - but rather because it adheres to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, the book covers a large number of films made in a broad range of styles across a 120-year period, from the Arctic to Africa, from the cities of China to rural Vermont.

Paul Henley discusses films made within reportage, exotic melodrama and travelogue genres in the period before the Second World War, as well as more conventionally ethnographic films made for academic or state-funded educational purposes. The book explores the work of film-makers such as John Marshall, Asen Balikci, Ian Dunlop and Timothy Asch in the post-war period, considering ideas about authorship developed by Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner and Colin Young. It also discusses films authored by indigenous subjects themselves using the new video technology of the 1970s and the ethnographic films that flourished on British television until the 1990s. In the final part of the book, Henley examines the recent work of David and Judith MacDougall and the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, before concluding with an assessmentof a range of films authored in a participatory manner as possible future models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU 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