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- An ethnographic film is a non-fiction film, often similar to a documentary film, historically shot by Western filmmakers and dealing with non-Western people, and sometimes associated with anthropology.
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Dec 9, 2020 · At the cusp of a COVID-19 second wave in Montreal, Quebec, I had the opportunity to watch Mike Poltorak’s ethnographic film The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019). The film takes us to the Kingdom of Tonga, located in the Southern Pacific, and explores the tensions, contradictions, and resonances between local healing rituals and psychiatric ...
Feb 12, 2014 · 20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching | Psycho Cultural Cinema. What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film…
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Jan 24, 2018 · As a genre of filmmaking whose definition is often contested, ethnographic film is at times stabilized by particular practices that aim to mark it as a recognizable category of cultural production. Instead of focusing on the genre’s history, though, we wanted to locate the reproduction of the genre in its afterlife.
Ethnographic film is the use of film in ethnographic representation as either a method, a record, or a means of reporting on anthropological fieldwork. Like documentary films, ethnographic films are nonfiction films in which live-action shots are edited and shaped into a central narrative drama.
Dec 23, 2015 · Ethnographic film, which combines documentary filming and anthropological research, originated in the late 19th century. Early on, anthropologists used film to record cultures.
Dec 19, 2012 · Uses Bazinian film theory to examine the history of observational and ethnographic cinema as a form that “involved the abandonment of ethnographic interpretation as explanation and argument in favor of a different kind of interpretive logic—one that was filmic rather than derived from written text” (p. 4).
Book Reviews 71. ethnographic film is situated after World War II and is illustrated through four major figures: Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Ash.
