Documenting ourselves : film, video, and culture

Print version:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; 1. Folklore, Film, and Video: In the Beginning; The Early Documentary; Defining Documentary; Flaherty and the Romantic Documentary; City Symphonies; Vertov's Montage; Grierson and the British School: Films of Occupational Groups; Nationalism; Romanticism to Realism; Shifting Paradigms: Film and Folklore; Cinema Verite; Postverite: Documentary as an Art Form; Documentary Films as Expressions of the Self: Feminist, Minority, and Third World Films; The Documentary as Folk History Defining the Ethnodocumentary: Documenting the Other Ethnographies on Celluloid: Event Films; The Narrated ""Story"": Ethnographic Romanticism; Sequence Filming of Events; Gardner's Interpretative Montage as Ethnographic Romanticism; Shared Anthropology: The Work of Jean Rouch; Reconstruction: The Netsilik Eskimo Series; Observational Cinema; Conveying the Cultural Point of View; Blended Voices; Culture Clash: The Global Village; Ethnography as Folklore; 2. The Folkloric Film: Definition and Methodology, Texts and Contexts; The Early Film Movement and Folklore; Re-creating Previous Models A Methodology for Analyzing Intent, Content, and the Self Films Documenting Texts and Artifacts; Historic Reconstruction; Cultural Contexts: Films Emphasizing Communities and Regions; 3. Documentation: Interactional Events and Individual Portraits; Process and Event Films; Portraits of Artists and Performers; Films of Negotiation; Focus and Technique in Folklore Films; 4. A Search for Self: Film makers Reflection Their Work; Choice of Subject; Revealing the Self; Training: A Process of Discovery; Collaboration and Compromise; 5. Projecting the Self: Filmic Technique and Construction Editing TruthsSound Devices: The Filmmaker's Voice

Tools of Choice; 6. Structure Shifts and Style: A Montage of Voices and Images; Ethical Problems and Negotiated Films; or, Is Everybody Happy?; Funding-For Love or Money or Both; Distribution, or, Getting It Out There; Film as Text, Film as Experience; Film: The Vehicle for Event and Performance; 7. Visions of Ourselves; Folklore Films and Documentary Modes; Video Reflections; Filmography; Notes; References; Index