Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film

Contents: Beate Engelbrecht: Preface - Paul Hockings: The Early Years of Visual Anthropology - Luc de Heusch: The Prehistory of Ethnographic Film - Richard Leacock: Robert Flaherty as I Knew Him - Christof Decker: Richard Leacock and the Origins of Direct Cinema: Re-assessing the Idea of an 'Uncontrolled Cinema' - Brian Winston: Grierson Versus Ethnographic Film - Gerald Sullivan: Recording Social Interaction: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's Contribution to Visual Anthropology in Ethnographic Context - Patsy Asch: From Bushmen to Ju/'Hoansi: A personal Reflection on the Early Films of John Marshall - John Bishop: Life By Myth: The Development of Ethnographic Filming in the Work of John Marshall - Sarah Elder: Pulling Focus: Timothy Asch Between Filmmaking and Pedagogy - David MacDougall: Colin Young, Ethnographic Film and the Film Culture of the 1960s - Judith MacDougall: Colin Young and Running Around With a Camera - Paul Henley: The Origins of Observational Cinema: Conversations with Colin Young - Richard Chalfen: The Worth/Adair Navajo Experiment - Unanticipated Results and Reactions - Peter Biella: The Legacy of John Collier, Jr. - Dorothy Todd Henaut: George Stoney: The Johnny Appelseed of Documentary - Harald Prins/John Bishop: «Let Me Tell You A Story»: Edmund Carpenter as Forerunner in the Anthropology of Visual Media - Paul Hockings: Asen Balikci Films Nanook - Karl G. Heider: Robert Gardner: The Early Years - Ákos Östör: Robert Gardner's Ambivalent Anthropological Filmmaking - Sharon R. Sherman: From Romanticism to Reflexivity in the Films of Jorge Preloran - Ian Bryson: Visual Anthropology: The AIATSIS Contribution - Hart Cohen: Early Ethnographic Film and Documentary: Points of Contact - Howard Morphy: The Aesthetics of Communication and the Communication of Cultural Aesthetics: A Perspective on Ian Dunlop's Films of Aboriginal Australia - Colette Piault: Festivals, Conferences, Seminars and Networks in Visual Anthropology in Europe - Marc Henry

The Editor: Beate Engelbrecht studied anthropology, sociology and economics in Basel. She works as an ethnographic filmmaker and producer at IWF Wissen und Medien gGmbH in Göttingen and received various international film prizes. She is teaching visual anthropology at various universities.

«The book is the proceedings of a conference organized in 2001 in Göttingen, the former Mecca of the 'positivist' filmmakers, and it should be widely read and studied in film schools as well as in drama and anthropology departments: these memories have a great future!» (Alain Ricard, Research in African Literatures.)