For the new website on Navajo Film Themselves (aka: Through Navaho Eyes) http://www.penn.museum/sites/navajofilmthemselves/ Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: milefi...@gmail.com
Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.mspresents.com, www.portraitofjason.com, www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, To see or download our 2014 Video Catalog, click here! Support "Milestone Film" on Facebook and Twitter! On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuck...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > Ethnographic films, more > > > > Thanks to everyone contributing to this interesting thread. > > Some further thoughts from my own teaching and research and mediamaking: > > > > > There’s a very long history of visual representations of The Other that > predates cinema. Slide shows of exotic places and peoples were common in the > 19th century combining entertainment and edification. A trip to “The Holy > Land” was a perennial favorite. As a kid I saw a quick sketch artist do this > sort of thing in a church setting, so it probably predates photography. > > > > It’s probably useful to be aware that there’s an overlap but sometimes a > difference between “anthropological film” and “ethnographic film” by > understanding ethnography as a form of investigation that is also used by > sociologists, cultural analyists, etc., not just people in the field of > anthro. > > > > There’s a very well developed discussion in the field of Visual Anthropology > over the past 30 years or so. If you have access to a university library, > it’s worth some time browsing the shelves for that category, and the journals. > > > > Sol Worth and John Adair’s Through Navaho Eyes—a classic, giving the camera > to the people to make their own films > > > > Scott Macdonald, American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The > Cambridge Turn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), Outstanding > book on the Harvard/MIT works of Gardner, Marshall, Pincus, etc. > > > > Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Culture Reader. Excellent collection of > pertinent essays. > > > > Catherine Russell, Experimental Ethnography > > > > All the works of Trinh (already mentioned) > > > > Jim Lane, Autobiographical Documentary in America (mostly on straight white > guys, but there’s also a very interesting development of autobiography in > feminist and gay movement media) > > > > Barbach and Taylor, Cross-cultural Filmmaking > > Taylor, Visualizing Theory > > > > Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines) > > by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam > > > > > > Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial AtlanticMay 28, 2012 > > by Robert Stam and Ella Shohat > > > > > > The links to colonialism and imperialism have been dramatically underlined by > more recent research and criticism. I’d suggest: > > Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema > > by José B. Capino. Almost all the cinematic record of Philippine life as a > US colony was made by Americans and ended up in the US. This young scholar > recovered these lost records for the native audience. > > > > For an outstanding critique of Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss: Jyotsna > Kapur, “The Art of Ethnographic Film and the Politics of Protesting > Modernity: Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss. Visual Anthropology, vol 9, > 167-185. > > > > > > > > And some work worth viewing again and thinking about: > > > > Basil Wright, Song of Ceylon > > > > Kubelka’s Our Trip to Africa > > > > TV and video ranging from: > > Anthony Bourdain food/travel reality format shows (CNN, Food Channel, Travel > Channel) (and along the same lines, Andrew Zimmer’s shows on bizarre foods) > > > > Lonely Planet and other hipster travel docs, usually featuring a physically > appealing young (blond) visitor to the developing world’s more exotic > locations > > > > Gonzo porn visits to foreign brothels > > > > > > > Chuck Kleinhans > chuck...@northwestern.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
