Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and CultureSince 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 |
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