1st Edition

Video Ethnography

By David Redmon Copyright 2019
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

Video Ethnography provides a thought-provoking, guided framework to ethnographic filmmaking. It examines how this kind of filmmaking can be a means of approximating, mediating and evoking lived experience. Functioning as a kind of sensory extension of the videographer, video ethnography arises directly out of lived experience as a process of dynamic encounters, mobile situations, and embodied... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One. Phenomenology of Cinematic Experience

Chapter Two. The Wild Lab: Sensory Ethnography

Chapter Three. Sweetgrass and Leviathan: Case Studies in Video Ethnography

Chapter Four. Video Ethnography: Sanctuary as a Case Study

Chapter Five. Girl Model: A Case Study in the Methods and Ethics of Video Ethnography

Chapter Six. Film Festivals, the Public Sphere and the Ethics of Video Ethnography: Kamp Katrina as a Case Study

Biography

David Redmon received his Ph.D. in sociology from SUNY-Albany. His documentaries have premiered at Sundance, Toronto, the Museum of Modern Art, Viennale Film Festivals, and other international destinations. Redmon is a former Radcliffe Fellow and Film Studies Fellow at Harvard University. He is currently an independent scholar, filmmaker, and Fellow at the IMeRA Institute for Advanced Study at University of Aix-Marseille, France.