{"product_id":"beyond-observation-a-history-of-authorship-in-ethnographic-film-9781526131348","title":"Beyond Observation: A History of Authorship in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Observation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Authorship, Praxis, Observation, Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Histories: Ethnographic film in the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 The long prehistory of ethnographic film\u003cbr\u003e2 Expeditions, melodrama and the birth of ethnofiction\u003cbr\u003e3 The invisible Author: films of re-enactment in the postwar period\u003cbr\u003e4 Records, not movies: the early films of John Marshall and Timothy Asch\u003cbr\u003e5 Reflexivity and participation: the films of David and Judith MacDougall in Africa and Australia\u003cbr\u003e6 Entangled voices: the complexities of collaborative authorship\u003cbr\u003e7 The subject as Author: indigenous media and the Video nas Aldeias project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Authors: Three key figures\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e8 Jean Rouch: sharing anthropology\u003cbr\u003e9 Robert Gardner: beyond the burden of the real\u003cbr\u003e10 Colin Young: the principles of Observational Cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Television as meta-author: Ethnographic film in Britain\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e11 Ways of doing ethnographic film on British television\u003cbr\u003e12 Beyond the ‘disappearing world’ – and back again\u003cbr\u003e13 The decline of ethnographic film on British television\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Beyond observation: Ethnographic film in the twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e14 The evolution of Observational Cinema: recent films of David and Judith MacDougall\u003cbr\u003e15 Negative capability and the flux of life: films of the Sensory Ethnography Lab\u003cbr\u003e16 Participatory perspectives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn epilogue: Return to Kiriwina: the ethnographic film-maker as Author\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: British Television Documentaries produced in collaboration with Ethnographic Researchers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTextual references\u003cbr\u003eFilm references\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040995475799,"sku":"9781526131348","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526131348.jpg?v=1750948529","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-observation-a-history-of-authorship-in-ethnographic-film-9781526131348","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}