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Bad film histories : ethnography and the early archive / Katherine Groo Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Call No: 769[39] GROAuthor: Groo, Katherine Edition: 2019Place: Minneapolis; LondonPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: 366 pages : illustrated ; 22 cmSubject: ANIMALS IN FILMS ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM ; CAVELL, STANLEY ; DANCE IN FILMS ; DERRIDA, JACQUES ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; FILM HISTORY ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL Summary: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
Bad Film Histories is a vital work that unsettles the authority of the archive, examining the imprecisions and absences that define film history and its archives. Taking ethnographic cinema as a crucial case study, Katherine Groo challenges standard ways of thinking and writing about film history and questions widespread assumptions about what film artifacts are and what makes them meaningful. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781517900335Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: Introduction: Untimely Historiographies, Ethnographic Particularities -- 1. Of Other Archives: The Excursive Minors of La Maison Lumière and Les Archives de la Planète -- 2. Historical Figures: Dance and the Unlettered Line -- 3. Following Derrida: Ethnocinematic Animals, Death Effects, and the Supplement of Expedition Cinema -- 4. Language Games, or the World Intertitled -- 5. Ethnography Won’t Wait: New Media and Material Histories -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Call No: 409 NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xvii, 187 p. ; 25 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; AUDIENCES ; BODY IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; SEMI-DOCUMENTARIES ; SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; KING, RODNEY ; STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925) ; REALISM ON TV ; REALITY TV ; RACIAL ISSUES ON TV ; RACIAL ISSUES AND TV ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIOLENCE ON TV ; WAR AND THE CINEMA ; GULF WAR ON TV ; ETHICS AND TV Summary: "Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments where the traditional boundaries of fiction/non-fiction and truth/falsehood blur. Nichols argues that the history of social representation in film, television, and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response, and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretative frameworks offered by neoformalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process, while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation - such as project, intentionality, and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-182) and indexISBN: 0253340640 (alk. paper); 0253209005 (paper : alk. paper)LON: 10767942
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A catalogue of 16mm films on anthropology and ethnology (revised) Ottowa: Canadian Film Institute, 1968.
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Celluloid subjects to digital directors : changing Aboriginialities and Australian dccumentary film, 1901-2017 / Jennifer Debenham Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020.
Call No: 71(94) (=1-81) DEBAuthor: Debenham, Jennifer Edition: 2020Place: OxfordPublisher: Peter LangPubDate: 2020PhysDes: xv, 230 pages : illustratedSeries: Documentary Film Cultures; 2Subject: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE CINEMA ; DOCUMENTARIES ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; DESERT PEOPLE (AT, Ian Dunlop, 1967) ; NINGLA A-NA (AT, Alessandro Cavadini, 1972) ; MY SURVIVAL AS AN ABORIGINAL (AT, Essie Coffey, 1979) ; LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (AT, Alec Morgan , 1983) ; LINK-UP DIARY (AT, David MacDougall, 1987) ; WHISPERING IN OUR HEARTS THE MOWLA BLUFF MASSACRE (AT, Mitch Torres, 2001) ; WE DON'T NEED A MAP (AT, Warwick Thornton, 2017) Notes: How did Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population go from being the objectified subjects of documentary films to the directors and producers in the digital age? What prompted these changes and how and when did this decolonisation of documentary film production occur? Taking a long historical perspective, this book is based on a study of a selection of Australian documentary films produced by and about Aboriginal peoples since the early twentieth century. The films signpost significant shifts in Anglo-Australian attitudes about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and trace the growth of the Indigenous filmmaking industry in Australia.
Used as a form of resistance to the imposition of colonialism, filmmaking gave Aboriginal people greater control over their depiction on documentary film and the medium has become an avenue to contest widely held assumptions about a peaceful colonial settlement. This study considers how developments in camera and film stock technologies along with filmic techniques influenced the depiction of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The films are also examined within their historical context, employing them to gauge how social attitudes, access to funding and political pressures influenced their production values. The book aims to expose the course of race relations in Australia through the decolonisation of documentary film by Aboriginal filmmakers, tracing their struggle to achieve social justice and self-representation. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781789974782Contents: Acknowledgements -- Cultural Warning and Acknowledgement -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Aboriginalities -- Media Ecology -- The Longue Durée -- Decolonising the Documentary Film in Australia -- Stages of the Journey -- Part I Exotic Subjects, 1901–1966 -- Chapter 1 The Last of Their Kind: Aboriginal Life in Central Australia (1901) -- Chapter 2 Physical Traits: Life in Central Australia (1931) -- Chapter 3 Benign and Iconic: Aborigines of the Sea Coast (1950) -- Chapter 4 The “Last” of Their Kind, Again: Desert People (1967) -- Part II Voices for Change, 1957–1972 -- Chapter 5 Not Dying Out Quietly: Warburton Aborigines (1957) -- Chapter 6 A Discomforting Assimilation: The Change At Groote (1968) -- Chapter 7 Challenging White Indifference: Ningla-A-Na (Hungry for Our Land) (1972) -- Part III Counting the Cost, 1978–1987 -- Chapter 8 Telling My Story My Way: My Survival As An Aboriginal (1978) -- Chapter 9 On Being Stolen: Lousy Little Sixpence (1983) -- Chapter 10 Picking Up the Broken Pieces: Link-Up Diary (1987) -- Part IV Digital Directors: Decolonising Documentary Film, 2002–2017 -- Chapter 11 Setting the Records Straight: Whispering in Our Hearts: The Mowla Bluff Massacre (2002) -- Chapter 12 The Sounds of Spaces Between: Willaberta Jack (2007) -- Chapter 13 Breaking the Drought at the Sydney Film Festival: We Don’t Need a Map (2017), Occupation Native (2017), In My Own Words (2017)and Connecting to Country (2017) -- Bibliography -- Index
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Cine-ethnography / Jean Rouch; edited and translated by Steven Feld London: University of Minnesota Press,
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The cinematic griot : the ethnography of Jean Rouch / Paul Stoller Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Call No: 81ROU STOAuthor: Stoller, Paul Place: ChicagoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: xvii, 247 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; ROUCH, JEAN Notes: "Bibliography of Jean Rouch": p. 223-225; "Filmography of Jean Rouch": p. 227-233; Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and indexISBN: 0226775461 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226775488 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 8496610
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Documentary across disciplines / edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. Cambridge [US]: The MIT Press, [2016].
Call No: 761 DOCAuthor: Balsom, Erika ; Peleg, Hila Source: Estate of Adrian MilesPlace: Cambridge [US]Publisher: The MIT PressPubDate: [2016]PhysDes: 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Subject: DOCUMENTARIES ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; FAROCKI, HARUN Summary: Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of "fly on the wall" immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now underst.Notes: This book emerges from the Berlin Documentary Forum, a program for the production and presentation of contemporary and historical documentary practices in an interdisciplinary context.
Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780262529068
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The documentary film book / edited by Brian Winston London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Call No: 761 DOCAuthor: Winston, Brian CorpAuthor: British Film InstituteSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2013PhysDes: 416 pages ; 25 cmSubject: AFRICA ; ART CINEMA ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; BRAZIL ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; CINEMA VERITE ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; HISTORY ON TV ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; ISRAEL ; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA ; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES ; PALESTINE ; POLITICAL FILMS ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; REALITY TV ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; MOORE, MICHAEL ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009) ; AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (UK, Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003) ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) Summary: Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film.
In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies. -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9781844573417Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary --; PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES -- The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film: Bill Nichols -- 'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence: Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject: Stella Bruzzi -- On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore: Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence: Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary: Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form: Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences: Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised: Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics: Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future: John Corner --; PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS -- Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North: Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement: Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board: Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand: Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State: Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahana -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA: Dave Saunders -- Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov: Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s–50s: Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition: Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited: Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions: Craig Hight --; PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS -- Eastwards: Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N.: Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil: Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada: Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday – Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition; Susanna Helke --; PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES -- First-Person Political: Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them: Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film: Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity: Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment: Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn --; PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES -- Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film: Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary: Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television: Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary: Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art; Michael Renov --; PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES -- Documentary as Open Space: Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online: John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto': Peter Wintonick --; Afterword: The Unchanging Question: Brian Winston -- Index
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Hollywood, the dream factory : an anthropologist looks at the movie-makers / by Hortense Powdermaker Boston MA: Little Brown & Co., 1951.
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Principles of visual anthropology : editor, Paul Hockings The Hague: Mouton, 1975.
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Representing reality : issues and concepts in documentary / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Call No: 761NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: xx, 313 p. ; 24 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; BODY IN FILMS ; COMMENTARY ; DEATH IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIEWERS Summary: "Representing Reality examines the styles, strategies, and structures of documentary film. It does not offer a general survey of documentary film history so much as a conceptual overview of the form itself: what qualities of cinema underpin it, what institutional structures sustain it, what rhetorical operations inform it, what interpretive perspectives encompass it. How these questions arrange themselves into recurrent patterns and preoccupations [is] the central focus." -- Taken from preface.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index; Filmology: p. [297]-304ISBN: 0253340608 (alk. paper); 0253206812 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 91002637; 8905992Contents: Axes of orientation: I. The domain of documentary -- II. Documentary modes of representation -- III. Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film -- Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other: IV. Telling stories with evidence and arguments -- V. Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it -- VI. The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity -- Documentary representation and the historical world: VII> Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power / Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols -- VIII. Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude
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Transcultural cinema / edited and with an introduction by Lucien Taylor Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Call No: 769:39 MACAuthor: MacDougall, David Source: USPlace: Princeton, NJPublisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1999PhysDes: x, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; DOCUMENTARIES Notes: Filmography: p. 293-302.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.ISBN: 0691012342Contents: Introduction / Lucien Taylor -- 1. The Fate of the Cinema Subject -- 2. Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing -- 3. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film -- 4. Beyond Observational Cinema -- 5. Complicities of Style -- 6. Whose Story Is It? -- 7. Subtitling Ethnographic Films -- 8. Ethnographic Film: Failure and Promise -- 9. Unprivileged Camera Style -- 10. When Less is Less -- 11. Film Teaching and the State of Documentary -- 12. Films of Memory -- 13. Transcultural Cinema.
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Visions of the East : orientalism in film / edited by Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1997.
Call No: 626-054 VISAuthor: Berstein, Matthew; Studlar, Gaylyn Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c1997PhysDes: ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; INDOCHINE (FR, Regis Wargnier, 1992) ; ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992) ; PEPE LE MOKO (FR, Julien Duvivier, 1937) ; CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1945) Summary: "Some of the most popular and frequently discussed titles in movie history are imbued with orientalism, the politically charged way in which Western artists have represented gender, race, and ethnicity in the cultures of North Africa and Asia. This is the first anthology to address and highlight orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Eleven illuminating and well-illustrated essays utilize the insights of interdisciplinary cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, and genre criticism. Other films discussed include The Letter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Indochine, and severeal films of France's 'cinema colonial'."-BOOK BLURBNotes: includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and indexISBN: 0813522951Contents: Acknowledgements / Matthew Bernstein -- Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema / Ella Shohat -- The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania / Antonia Lant --"Out-Salomeing Salome": Dance, the New Woman, and Fan Magazine Orientalism / Gaylyn Studlar -- The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole / Andrienne L. McLean -- The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine / Marina Heung -- A Whole New (Disney) World Order: Alladin, Atomic Power, and the Muslim Middle East / Alan Nadel -- The "Cinema colonial" of 1930s France: Film Narration as Spatial Practice / Charles O'Brien -- Praying Mantis: Enchantment and Violence in French Cinema of the Exotic / Dudley Andrew -- In the Labyrinth: Masculine Subjectivity, Expatriation, and Colonialism in Pepe le Moko / Janice Morgan -- Timeless Histories: A British Dream of Cleopatra / Mary Homer.
Reading the Letter in a Postcolonial World / Phebe Shih Chao -- Orientalism in Film: A Select Bibliography
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