Subtitling Ethnographic Films
Visual Anthropology Review, 1995, v. 11, no. 1, pp. 83-91
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995
"Subtitles forced ethnographic films into a new mode and changed the viewing process from one of receiving information to interpreting the content and interrelations of a succession of film sequences."
Subtitles as one of the 'creative ingredients' of the documentary film; the essay considers complexities in translating ethnographic films, and the precision of treating language. Documentary film and the construction of 'fictional characters' out of images of the historical persona.
[ Later published in Transcultural Cinema (MacDougall, 1998). ]
ITEM 1995.131 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
A Joking Relationship (1957-8) – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
A Group of Women (1957-8) – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
Men Bathing(1957-8) – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
The Hunters – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
Marryings – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
A Curing Ceremony – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
N'um Tehai – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
Breathless (1959) – Jean-Luc Godard
Dead Birds (1961) – Robert Gardner
The Feast (1968) – Timothy Asch and John Marshall
Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda (1968) – David MacDougall
To Live With Herds (1968) – David MacDougall
Netsilik Eskimo Series (1963-5) – Asen Balikci and Quentin Brown
Tempus de Baristas – David MacDougall
An Argument About Marriage (1974) – John Marshall
Chang (1927) – Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Turksib (1929) – Victor Turin
Imaginero (1969) – Jorge Preloran
Cochengo Miranda (1974) – Jorge Preloran
Serda's Children (1978) – Jorge Preloran