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Films
8 Films
Keywords
“Public Figure”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
3
short films
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Central Asia and Far East
2
South America
1
South-East Asia
1
Various
3
Country
China
1
Japan
2
United Kingdom
1
Various
3
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
2
Death
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
History of Anthropology
3
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Memory
1
Political Activists
1
Popular Culture
1
Public Figure
8
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Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Social Change
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Berg, Julia
1
Henley, Paul
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Longinotto, Kim
2
Okojie, Paul
1
Singer, André
3
Williams, Jano
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
Strangers Abroad
3
not set
2
Country of production
United Kingdom
8
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Year of production
1986
3
1989
1
1993
1
1995
1
2000
1
2002
1
Colour / Black and white
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
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
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
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