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Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and Culture - Couverture souple

Sherman, Sharon

 
9780813109343: Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813109345 ISBN 13 : 9780813109343
Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997

Synopsis

Since Robert Flaherty's landmark film Nanook of the North (1922) arguments have raged over whether or not film records of people and traditions can ever be "authentic." And yet never before has a single volume combined documentary, ethnographic, and folkloristic filmmaking to explore this controversy.

What happens when we turn the camera on ourselves? This question has long plagued documentary filmmakers concerned with issues of reflexivity, subject participation, and self-consciousness. Documenting Ourselves includes interviews with filmmakers Les Blank, Pat Ferrero, Jorge Preloran, Bill Ferris, and others, who discuss the ways their own productions and subjects have influenced them. Sharon Sherman examines the history of documentary films and discusses current theiroeis and techniques of folklore and fieldwork.

But Sharon Sherman does not limit herself to the problems faced by filmmakers today. She examines the history of documentary films, tracing them from their origins as a means of capturing human motion through the emergence of various film styles. She also discusses current theories and techniques of folklore and fieldwork, concluding that advances in video technology have made the camcorder an essential tool that has the potential to redefine the nature of the documentary itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sharon R. Sherman, director of the folklore program and professor of English at the University of Oregon, is an accomplished filmmaker with more than twenty years of experience in the field and in teaching film and folklore.

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Éditeur
The University Press of Kentucky
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813109345
ISBN 13 
9780813109343
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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Personne responsable
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