An ethnographic film is a non-fiction film, usually dealing with non-Western people, and often associated with anthropology.THIS ARTICLE IS POORLY WRITTEN, INACCURATE AND NEEDS TO BE REWRITTEN! ==Origins== Prospector, explorer and eventual filmmaker, Robert J. Flaherty, is considered to be the forefather of ethnographic film. His film Nanook of th...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnographic_film
An anthropological film, in one sense, that seeks to establish an objective and analytical depiction of a specific culture. The term also refers to the type of documentary film that attempts to fully disclose one culture to another, treating all the data of the `new found` culture effectively, openly and fairly as if from the perspective of a membe...
Found on
http://www.allmovie.com/glossary/term/ethnographic+film
(from the article `motion picture`) Most scholars prefer that all artistry be eliminated from ethnographic films so that the visual data recorded by the camera remains as fresh and ... Film and photography have been the longest-standing concerns, but ethnographic film has come closest to achieving genre status and received the most ... ...
Found on
http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/49
No exact match found.
