American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary by MacDonald, Scott -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Subvention Title Copyright Dedication Contents 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 Dopplegänger: 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

9. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Sensory Ethnography

Epilogue Appendix: Sources for Films Notes Index