KnowraEthnographic filmLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Ethnographic film, each with the reason it gives.All 11Broader topic 2Related 5Narrower topic 2Compared with 2Documentary filmBroader topic: It applies documentary methods to cultural observation and raises questions about representation.Documentary ethicsRelated: Its history shows how documentary representation can reproduce unequal relations between filmmakers and filmed communities.Postcolonial cinemaCompared with: Its history raises questions about who observes, represents, and controls the image.Nanook of the NorthRelated: The film uses everyday activities to frame an account of Inuit culture.Shōhei ImamuraRelated: Imamura’s attention to rituals and marginalized groups often gives his fiction an ethnographic quality.Visual anthropologyBroader topic: It is visual anthropology’s most established form of audiovisual research and representation.Safi FayeNarrower topic: Faye's academic training informed films attentive to local speech, labor, and social relations.Robert J. FlahertyNarrower topic: Flaherty’s films became influential models for cinematic portrayals of cultural life.Sherry OrtnerRelated: Ortner’s film scholarship connects anthropology with the study of cinematic representation and production.Cinema of AfricaCompared with: The distinction between documenting African societies and representing them from within remains contested.Jamie UysRelated: The Gods Must Be Crazy borrows an observational frame while constructing a fictional story about cultural encounter.