Beyond observation

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

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