‘indigenous media’ projects of the 1980s, and the ethnographic films thatįlourished on British television until the 1990s.Įxamines the recent films of David and Judith MacDougall, the Harvard Sensory Well as the emergence of Observational Cinema in the 1970s. Post-war period, he discusses Jean Rouch, John Marshall and Robert Gardner, as
In visual anthropology as well as to those previously unfamiliar withĪmong the early genres that Paul Henley discusses areįrench reportage films, the Soviet kulturfilm, the US travelogue, the classicĭocumentaries of Robert Flaherty and Basil Wright, as well as the more academicįilms of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Historical account of its kind and will be accessible to students and lecturers In a broad range of styles, in many different parts of the world, from theĪrctic to Africa, from urban China to rural Vermont. Beyond Observation offers a historical analysis of ethnographic film from
