Filmed Ethnography or Ethnographic Film? Voice and Positionality in Ethnographic, Documentary, and Feminist Film

[...]a critique of disciplinary methods and boundaries deeply affected the study of anthropology and ethnographic film such that the study of anthropology, a "bourgeois discipline" (Asad 17), became entwined with how the Third World subject is understood. [...]I suggest we blur the line no...

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Published inJournal of film and video Vol. 67; no. 3-4; pp. 42 - 56
Main Author Sikand, Nandini
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Englewood University of Illinois Press 22.09.2015
University Film and Video Association
Subjects
Anthropology
Audiences
Boards of trustees
Brothels
Cinema and Film Studies
Collaboration
Colonialism
Criticism and interpretation
Cultural anthropology
Discipline
Documentary films
Ethnographic movies
Ethnography
Feminism
Feminism and motion pictures
Feminist film theory
Feminist motion pictures
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion picture industry
Motion Pictures
Movies
Narratives
Pediatrics
Reflexivity
Said, Edward
Sex workers
United States
India
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Summary:[...]a critique of disciplinary methods and boundaries deeply affected the study of anthropology and ethnographic film such that the study of anthropology, a "bourgeois discipline" (Asad 17), became entwined with how the Third World subject is understood. [...]I suggest we blur the line not simply between subject and filmmaker, but between subject, filmmaker, and audience.
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ISSN:0742-4671
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DOI:10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0042