Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology

Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible

Lorraine Mortimer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04397-9 (ISBN)

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In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain separate. This book reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand–born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s. Mentored by Margaret Mead in anthropology and Cecile Starr in fine arts, Sandall was eventually hired as the one-man film unit at the newly formed Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in 1965. In the 1970s, he became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. Sandall won First Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, yet his films are scarcely known, even in Australia now. Mortimer demonstrates how Sandall's films continue to be relevant to contemporary discussions in the fields of anthropology and documentary studies. She ties exploration of the making and restriction of Sandall's aboriginal films and his nonrestricted films made in Mexico, Australia, and India to the radical history of anthropology and the resurgence today of an expanded, existential-phenomenological anthropology that encompasses the vital connections between humans, animals, things, and our environment.

Lorraine Mortimer is Honorary Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney and has taught in Sociology/Anthropology and Cinema Studies. She is the translator of Edgar Morin's The Cinema or The Imaginary Man: An Essay in Sociological Anthropology and author of Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Trusting the Material: Maíz (1962)
2. Environments Fit for the Spirit: The Flahertys, Sandall, and some Anarchist Anthropology
3. They Were Still Participants: The Ritual Films (1966-1976)
4. The Colors of the Infinite: Camels and the Pitjantjara (1969)
5. "What You Thinkin' About, Little Horse?": Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman's Life (1972)
6. Harmony and Fire: Making a Bark Canoe (1969) and Ngatjakula: A Walbiri Fire Ceremony (1967 and 1977)
7. More Optional and More Fragile: Weddings (1976)
8. In the Floating Desert with Jayasinhji Jhala Part 1: The Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat (1981), A Zenana: Scenes and Recollections (1982), and The Bharvad Predicament (1987)
9. In the Floating Desert with Jayasinhji Jhala Part 2: Close Encounters of No Kind (2002), and Nomads
A (Relative) Conclusion
Appendix I: Roger Sandall's Filmed Material Held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Appendix II: Roger Sandall's Films Made (Produced, Directed and Edited), Film Awards, and Special Screenings
Appendix III: Innovation in Sound Recording Made During the Filming of the AIAS Ritual Films According to David MacDougall
Appendix IV: Availability of Sandall's Non-Restricted Films
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	30 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-04397-2 / 0253043972
ISBN-13	978-0-253-04397-9 / 9780253043979
Zustand	Neuware