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Business and storytelling – could be useful

Posted onSeptember 26, 201714,299 Comments

Storytelling has become a top-of-mind issue in recent times, as technology has democratized the power to share our stories with the world. The fact that it continues to be a Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, Storytelling

Babakiueria

Posted onSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 20175,197 Comments

Here is a great example of satire of ethnography. Suggested by Isabella Normark. Pay attention to the word choices, the way the dialogues are written, the point of view, style Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Narrative, Storytelling, Visual Ethnography

20 ethnographic and documentary films psychological anthropologists should be teaching.

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 20176,165 Comments

20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching

CategoriesDocumentary, Film theory, Filmmaking, Narrative, Storytelling, Visual Ethnography

Transformative storytelling – participatory video practices as a research method

Posted onSeptember 24, 201713,944 Comments

“Participatory video implies several changes to the knowledge processes involved in the research and the power dynamics within them. First, as with other participatory approaches, it inverts the relationship between Continue Reading

CategoriesFilm theory, Filmmaking, Storytelling, Video Production, Visual EthnographyTagsparticipatory video

Visual Ethnography – Statues Also Die, by Chris Marker & Alain Resnais (1953)

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 201710,624 Comments

This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Film theory, Filmmaking, Narrative, Visual EthnographyTagsdecolonial

The birth of documentary – Nanook of the North (1922)

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 20175,908 Comments

Here is an article that describes some of the concepts and ideas behind the documentary Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert Flaherty who spent 2 years among the Inuit Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Filmmaking, Narrative, StorytellingTagsethnography

Anatomy of a Scene – NYT

Posted onSeptember 22, 20175,634 Comments

Here is a link to a great page from the New York Times where famous directors deconstruct scenes from their films. Do go through ost of them and understand how Continue Reading

CategoriesEditing, Narrative, Storytelling

Ridleygrams

Posted onSeptember 14, 2017September 18, 20178,432 Comments

Ridley Scott’s storyboards – very interesting to look at and examine. See here: http://cinefex.com/blog/ridleygrams/

CategoriesEditing, Filmmaking, Narrative, Storytelling

Levi-Strauss vs. Propp

Posted onSeptember 11, 2017September 24, 20175,331 Comments

The translation and publication of Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale took place in the late 1950s, about thirty years after its original publication in Russian. As a consequence, the Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, StorytellingTagsstructuralism

Photo essays for inspiration

Posted onSeptember 7, 2017September 7, 20178,449 Comments

Pease take a look at the photo essays that were prize winners for the Photography Museum of Humanity awards last year. Read the article about An Idyllic Picnic in Russia – “Bathed Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, PhotographyTagsphoto essay

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