Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and Culture

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University Press of Kentucky, 1998 - Performing Arts - 320 pages
Since Robert Flaherty's landmark film Nanook of the North (1922) arguments have raged over whether or not film records of people and traditions can ever be ""authentic."" And yet never before has a single volume combined documentary, ethnographic, and folkloristic film making to explore this controversy. What happens when we turn the camera on ourselves? This question has long plagued documentary filmmakers concerned with issues of reflexivity, subject participation, and self-consciousness. Documenting Ourselves includes interviews with filmmakers Les Blank, Pat Ferrero, Jorge Preloran, Bill F
 

Contents

Folklore Film and Video In the Beginning
1
The Folkloric Film Definition and Methodology Texts and Contexts
61
Documentation Interactional Events and Individual Portraits
125
A Search for Self Filmmakers Reflect on Their Work
167
Projecting the Self Filmic Technique and Construction
207
Structure Shifts and Style A Montage of Voices and Images
223
Visions of Ourselves
257
Filmography
277
Notes
285
References
295
Index
307
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