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Introduction Introduction
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Filming Children for Research Purposes Filming Children for Research Purposes
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Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Film Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Film
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Women Filmmakers Women Filmmakers
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Art-House Film and Anthropology Art-House Film and Anthropology
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Britain’s ‘Sociological’ Television Series: Seven Up! (1964–2019) Britain’s ‘Sociological’ Television Series: Seven Up! (1964–2019)
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MacDougall’s Films on Childhood MacDougall’s Films on Childhood
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Childhood Project: Delhi at Eleven Childhood Project: Delhi at Eleven
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Digital Children Digital Children
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33 Imaging Children’s Realities in Films: Visual Anthropological Approaches and Representations of Emotions in Childhood
Get accessDr Alison L. Kahn, Stanford University Overseas Program, Oxford, UK
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Published:18 September 2023
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Abstract
David MacDougall notes that films can ‘recover a dimension of human experience often lost in texts [ … ]. These emotions may in turn help the viewer to understand how and why people behave or interact as they do – how conversations are modulated by looking, gesturing, and touching’ (MacDougall, 2006, 58). Visual anthropological research foregrounds the study of cultural phenomena beyond the text; tangible and intangible expressions of material culture, such as: oral traditions, dance, music, object collections, photography, and art. Film as a tool of research, as well as a presentation of it, has been used to effect as an extension of ethnographic fieldwork methods that are at the heart of the anthropological enterprise. Ethnographic film graphically presents an ‘ethnos’—a culture of people, and favours inclusive approaches to the process of filmmaking between the filmmaker and the subjects of study. In this chapter, I identify three kinds of factual film that reveal children’s emotional connections to the world; each present a unique document to the world about the lives and thoughts of children and remain valuable resources of audio-visual material to those interested in understanding human and cultural behaviour. I highlight approaches to recording the sensual, verbal, and non-verbal forms of experience, as a mode of representation and revelation of explicit and subtle emotions in context, with the aim to move towards a more holistic understanding of children’s unique ways of being in the world.
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