From reviews of the first edition: "Ethnographic Film can rightly
be considered a film primer for anthropologists." -- Choice "This
is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be
ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for
the better. It obviously belongs in all departments of
anthropology, and most ethnographic filmmakers will want to read
it." -- Ethnohistory
Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in
1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of
native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and
teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to
provide a comprehensive introduction to this field of visual
anthropology, and it quickly became the standard reference.
In this new edition, Karl G. Heider thoroughly updates
Ethnographic Film to reflect developments in the field over the
three decades since its publication, focusing on the work of four
seminal filmmakers-- Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and
Timothy Asch. He begins with an introduction to ethnographic film
and a history of the medium. He then considers many attributes of
ethnographic film, including the crucial need to present "whole
acts," "whole bodies," "whole interactions," and "whole people" to
preserve the integrity of the cultural context. Heider also
discusses numerous aspects of making ethnographic films, from
ethics and finances to technical considerations such as film versus
video and preserving the filmed record. He concludes with a look at
using ethnographic film in teaching.
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