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Beyond Observation: A History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film

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By (author): Paul Henley

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.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 857g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526131362

About Paul Henley

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 19872014

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