Beyond observation : A history of authorship in ethnographic film / / Paul Henley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910404144603321
• Autore: Henley Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2020; Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 9781526131362; 1526131366; 9781526131379; 1526131374
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (568 p.)
• Collana: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetti: Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Documentary films
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- Part I: Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century -- Introduction -- 1 The long prehistory of ethnographic film -- 2 Travel films, melodrama and the origins of ethnofiction -- 3 The invisible author -- 4 Records, not movies -- 5 Reflexivity and participation -- 6 Entangled voices -- 7 The subject as author -- Part I: Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century -- Introduction -- 8 Jean Rouch -- 9 Robert Gardner -- 10 Colin Young -- Part I: Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century -- 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 I: Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century -- Introduction -- 14 The evolution of Observational Cinema -- 15 Negative capability and the flux of life -- 16 Participatory perspectives -- An epilogue Return to Kiriwina - the ethnographic film-maker as ; author -- Appendix -- Textual references -- Selected film references -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.