Beyond observation : A history of authorship in ethnographic film

This book analyses the authoring of ethnographic films between 1895 and 2015. It is based on the general argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be gauged according to whether it is about an exotic culture, but rather by the degree to which it conforms to the norms of ethnographic pr...

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Main Author: Henley, Paul (auth)
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Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
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