Ethnocinema, the Glossary
Ethnocinema, from Jean Rouch’s cine-ethnography and ethno-fictions, is an emerging practice of intercultural filmmaking being defined and extended by Melbourne, Australia-based writer and arts educator, Anne Harris, and others.[1]
Table of Contents
38 relations: Agency (philosophy), Anthropology, Bill Nichols (film critic), Blog, Cannes Film Festival, Cinéma vérité, Cross-cultural communication, David MacDougall, Dichotomy, Documentary film, Emir Kusturica, Essie Coffey, Ethnicity, Exoticism, Faye Ginsburg, Film festival, Geography, Goran Gocić, Gwendolyn A. Foster, Harald Prins, James Clifford (historian), Jay Ruby, Jean Rouch, Judith MacDougall, Melbourne, Navajo, Orientalism, Peru, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Social exclusion, Social network, Tim Asch, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Virtual world, Voyeurism, YouTube.
- Visual anthropology
Agency (philosophy)
Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.
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Bill Nichols (film critic)
Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
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Cinéma vérité
Cinéma vérité (truth cinema; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda.
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Cross-cultural communication
Cross-cultural communication is a field of study investigating how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures.
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David MacDougall
David MacDougall (born November 12, 1939) is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, academic, and documentary filmmaker, who is known for his ethnographic film work in Africa, Australia, Europe and India.
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Dichotomy
A dichotomy is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets).
Documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".
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Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica (Емир Кустурица; born 24 November 1954) is a Bosnian-born Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician.
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Essie Coffey
Essie Coffey, born Essieina Shillingsworth, (1941–1998) was born near Goodooga in northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
Exoticism
Exoticism (from exotic) is a trend in art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions and drew inspiration from them.
Faye Ginsburg
Faye Ginsburg (born October 28, 1952) is an American anthropologist who has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individuals’ styles of life.
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Film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.
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Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
Goran Gocić
Goran Gocić (born May 6, 1962) is a Serbian freelance journalist,(13 August 2007).
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Gwendolyn A. Foster
Gwendolyn A. Foster is an U.S. Air Force brigadier general, nurse practitioner, and midwife.
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Harald Prins
Harald E. L. Prins (born 1951) is a Dutch anthropologist, ethnohistorian, filmmaker, and human rights activist specialized in North and South America's indigenous peoples and cultures.
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James Clifford (historian)
James Clifford (born 1945) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work combines perspectives from history, literature, history of science, and anthropology.
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Jay Ruby
Jay Ruby (October 25, 1935 – February 23, 2022) was an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his retirement in 2003.
Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch (31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.
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Judith MacDougall
Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Navajo
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Ethnocinema and popular culture are Media studies.
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Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.
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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
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Tim Asch
Timothy Asch (July 16, 1932 – October 3, 1994) was an American anthropologist, photographer, and ethnographic filmmaker.
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952 in Hanoi; Vietnamese: Trịnh Thị Minh Hà) is a Vietnamese filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor.
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Virtual world
A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.
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Voyeurism
Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
See also
Visual anthropology
- Anthropology of media
- Bitter Honey (2014 film)
- Documentary Educational Resources
- Ethnocinema
- Ethnofiction
- Ethnographic film
- Indigenous media
- Man: A Course of Study
- Margaret Mead Film Festival
- Multimodal anthropology
- Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival
- Savage Africa
- Sociology of art
- The Doon School Quintet
- USC Center for Visual Anthropology
- Visual Anthropology (journal)
- Visual anthropology
- Visual ethnography