Beyond Observation

Paul Henley is Professorial Research Fellow at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester and an ethnographic film-maker. He was previously the founding director of the Granada Centre, 1987–2014 -- .

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

Textual references
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