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Cross-Cultural Filmmaking

A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos

By: Ilisa Barbash,Lucien Taylor

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Cross-Cultural Filmmaking

A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos

By: Ilisa Barbash,Lucien Taylor

This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming, from fundraising to exhibition, in lucid and complete detail—information never before assembled in one place. The first section discusses filmmaking styles and the assumptions that frequently hide unacknowledged behind them, as well as the practical and ethical issues involved in moving from fieldwork to filmmaking. The second section concisely and clearly explains the technical aspects, including how to select and use equipment, how to shoot film and video, and the reasons for choosing one or the other, and how to record sound. Finally, the third section outlines the entire process of filmmaking: preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Filled with useful illustrations and covering documentary and ethnographic filmmaking of all kinds, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking will be as essential to the anthropologist or independent documentarian on location as to the student in the classroom.

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572

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520915097

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9780520915091

Where the Roads All End

Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari

By: Ilisa Barbash

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Where the Roads All End

Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari

By: Ilisa Barbash

Where the Roads All End tells the remarkable story of an American family’s expeditions to the Kalahari Desert in the 1950s. Raytheon founder Laurence Marshall and his family recorded the lives of the last remaining hunter-gatherers, the so-called Bushmen, in what is now recognized as one of the most important anthropology ventures in Africa.

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