The Emergence of Ethnographic Film Practice
Past Travels and Future Itineraries
FILMOGRAPHY
A Weave of Time, 60 min. John Adair, S. Fanshel, and D. Gordon. New York: Navaho Film Project, 1986 In the Land of the Head Hunters Edward Curtis No longer available in Edward Curtis’s original silent version of 1914. It has been reworked in a new video version with added sound score into. In the Land of the War Canoes, 47 min. New York: Milestone Film and Video, 1992 Nanook of the North, 70 min. Robert Flaherty Paris: Revillon Freres, 1922 Arrival of a Train Lumiére Brothers Availiable in The Lumiere Brothers’ First Films, 62 min. A collection of 85 shorts shot between 1895 and 1897 New York: Kino on Video, 1997. The Hunters, 73 min. John Marshall Available in 16mm, Films on the !Kung Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1958 N!ai, Story of a !Kung Woman, 59 min. John Marshall Available in 16 mm, Films on the !Kung Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1952-78 Character Fomation in Different Culture Series, 42 min. Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Audiovisual Services Penn State University, 1988. Original version 1940. Jaguar, 35 min. Jean Rouch Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1965.0
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Asch, Timothy (1992), ’The Ethics of Ethnographic Film-making’, in Crawford, Peter Ian and Daivd Turton (eds), Film as Ethnography, Manchester University Press, New York pp196-204. Bateson, Gregory and Margaret Mead (1942) Balinese Character: a Photographic Analysis. New York Academy of Sciences, Special Publications 2, New York. deBrigard, Emilie (1995), ’The History of Ethnographic Film’, in Hockings, Paul (ed), Principles of Visual Anthropology 2nd Ed. , Mouton de Gruyter, New York pp13-44. Heider, Karl (1982), Ethnographic Film 3rd Ed. University of Texas Press, Austin. Jacknis, Ira (1988), ’Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali’, Cultural Anthroplogy vol.3 no.2. Lakoff, Andrew (1996), ’Freezing Time: Margaret Mead’s Diagnostic Photography’, Visual Anthropolphy Review vol 12 no. 1. MacDougall, David (1995), ’Beyond Observational Cinema’, in Hockings, Paul (ed), Principles of Visual Anthropology 2nd Ed. , Mouton de Gruyter, New York pp115- 132. Mead, Margaret (1995), ’Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words’, in Hockings, Paul (ed), Principles of Visual Anthropology 2nd Ed., Mouton de Gruyter, New York pp3-12. Rony, Fatimah Toby (1996), The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle. Duke University Press, Durham. Weinberger, Eliot (1994), ’The Camera People’, in Taylor, Lucien (ed), Visualizing Theory, Routledge, New York. Winston, Brian (1995), Claiming the Real. British Film Institute, London. Worth, Sol and John Adair (1972), Through Navaho Eyes: An Exploration of Film Communication and Anthropology, Indiana UP, Bloomington.
About the Author
Prerana Reddy
Prerana Reddy is the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art, where she organizes screenings, performances and talks, as well as overseeing its community outreach programs. She received her MA in Cinema Studies at New York University and is a co-founder and programming collective member 3rd I NY, which exhibits South Asian film & video on a monthly basis. She is also a documentary filmmaker whose work has explored such topics as alternatives to juvenile detention and the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. She currently sits on the board of Alwan for the Arts and is the director of their annual New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival. She also completed a three-year term on the board of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective. Prior to working at the Queens Museum, she was a curator and program administrator for the New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Learn More
