There is a classic textbook on documentary film by Eric Barnouw: Documentary
- the History of the Non-Fiction Film.
There are additional titles that may be of interest to your class because
they deal with ethnographic film, films on ethnic identities and dealing
with cultures other than mainstream American:
1) The book edited by Lucien taylor has already been mentioned by
another respondent.
2) Principles of Visual Anthropology edited by Paul Hockings (new &
revised edition 1995).
3) Anthropological Filmmaking, edited by Jack Rollwagen, (1989?)
4) Rethinking Visual Anthropology edited by Markus Banks & Howard
Morphy (1997)
5) Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and
Photography. edited by Leslie Devereux and Roger Hillman (1995). There are
also two books dealing specifically with Jean Rouch (as you mentioned
Manthia Diawara's film on Rouch):
1) Mick Eaton, Anthropology-Reality-Cinema: The Films of Jean
Rouch (British Film Institute, 1979?)
2) Paul Stoller, The Cinematic Griot, Jean Rouch (1996?)
Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
Sabinejb@aol.com
Sabine.j-b@t-online.de
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