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Films
13 Films
Keywords
“Public Figure”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
2
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
2
Central Asia and Far East
2
South America
1
South-East Asia
1
Various
6
Country
Australia
1
China
1
Japan
2
United Kingdom
2
Various
6
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
2
Death
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
History of Anthropology
7
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Memory
1
Political Activists
2
Popular Culture
1
Public Figure
13
x
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Social Change
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Berg, Julia
1
Graham, Trevor
1
Henley, Paul
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Husmann, Rolf
2
Loizos, Peter
1
Longinotto, Kim
2
Okojie, Paul
1
Singer, André
5
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Williams, Jano
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
Strangers Abroad
5
not set
5
Country of production
Australia
1
Germany
2
United Kingdom
10
not set
1
Year of production
1986
5
1989
1
1993
2
1995
1
1997
1
2000
1
2002
1
2009
1
Film list
Coming of Age – Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
1986
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
Dream Girls
1993
50
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams
.
This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s glitzy musical
Central Asia and Far East
Public Figure
Popular Culture
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Gender Role and Identity
Eat the Kimono
1989
60
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Hunt
.
A compelling biography of Hanayagi Genshu, a feminist and dancer who spent her lifetime defying the conservative traditions of Japanese society with her radical politics and unconventional
Central Asia and Far East
Public Figure
Gender Role and Identity
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Alternative culture
Everything is Relatives – William Rivers (1864-1922)
1986
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
Firth on Firth
1993
49
‘
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
Peter Loizos
Werner Sperscheinder
.
In a series of interviews in his London home and the London School of Economics, Sir Raymond Firth talks about his life and some of his personal views. The film focuses thus on his Maori studies,
British-Irish Isles
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano
2000
46
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film
South America
Death
Public Figure
Informant-researcher relationship
Social Change
Memory
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
The Most Admired Man
2002
29
‘
Directed by
Julia Berg
.
‘Wise’? ‘Serene’? ‘A Sage’? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of the ‘Real
South-East Asia
Public Figure
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Off the Verandah – Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
1986
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
The Professional Foreigner
2009
60
‘
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
.
Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen
Various
Film / Photography / Mass media
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
The Shackles of Tradition – Franz Boas (1858-1942)
1986
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
Strange Beliefs – Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)
1986
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
We Are Born to Survive
1995
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Paul Okojie
.
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester’s Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64.
British-Irish Isles
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Public Figure