American ethnographic film and personal documentary: the Cambridge turn

Abstract

Introduction A Tentative Overview of Boston-Area Documentary Filmmaking * Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary * Pragmatism: Learning from Experience * The Mission of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn * Subjects for Further Research * Acknowledgments 1. Lorna and John Marshall Beginnings: Lorna Marshall and First Film * John Marshall: The Hunters * Idylls of the !Kung * Pedagogy * Expulsion from Eden: Bitter Melons and N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman * The Pittsburgh Police Films and Brakhage's Eyes * Putting Down the Camera and Picking Up the Shovel * The Road Taken: A Kalahari Family * A Process in Time 2. Robert Gardner East Coast/West Coast: Early Experiments * Gardner and the Marshalls * Dead Birds * The Experience of Filmmaking as Thought Process * Robert Fulton: Reality's Invisible--Serious Playing Around * Screening Room: Midnight Movies * City Symphony: Forest of Bliss * The Return of the Repressed: Ika Hands * Still Journeying On: Unfinished Examinations of a Life * Studio7Arts: Sharon Lockhart's Double Tide and Robert Fenz's Correspondence 3. Timothy Asch Dodoth Morning and the Ethnographic Deadpan * Asch and the Yanomamo * The Ax Fight 4. Ed Pincus and the Emergence of Personal Documentary The Miriam Weinstein Quartet and Richard P. Rogers's Elephants: Fragments of an Argument * Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971--1976) * Alfred Guzzetti: Family Portrait Sittings * Guzzetti: It's a Small World * Guzzetti: Time Exposure 5. Alfred Guzzetti and Personal Cinema Air * Experimental Video: Language Lessons * Scylla and Charybdis * Still Point 6. Ross McElwee Finding a Muse: Charleen * Finding a Voice: Ann Schaetzel's Breaking and Entering and McElwee's Backyard * Doppleganger: Sherman's March * Nesting Dolls: Time Indefinite * On the Road Again: Six O'Clock News * Occupational Hazards: Bright Leaves * Orpheus: In Paraguay and Photographic Memory 7. Robb Moss Riverdogs: A Possible Eden * The Tourist: Freelance Editing * Voyage of Life: The Same River Twice 8. Panorama: Other Approaches to Personal Documentary Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan: Families in Transition * Michel Negroponte: Getting Involved * Leacock and Lalonde * The Subject Rebels: Nina Davenport's Films and Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's The Axe in the Attic * The Political Is the Personal: John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind and Jeff Daniel Silva's Balkan Rhapsodies * Alexander Olch's The Windmill Movie: This Little Seance of Flickering Light * Amie Siegel's DDR/DDR 9. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Sensory Ethnography Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, and Sweetgrass * Sheeple: Castaing-Taylor's Audio-Video Installations * The Sensory Ethnography Lab: J. P. Sniadecki, Stephanie Spray, Verena Paravel, and Leviathan Epilogue Appendix: Film Sources Notes Index