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Watch these video lectures

These video lectures correspond to the seminar class sessions. It is imperative that you watch the respective video lectures before the seminar sessions, so you can fully engage in the discussion and understand the steps you must make in this transition period from data collection to data analysis.

PopUp Module 4. Editing

Read these texts

We have provided you with some useful readings that will help you conceptualize the next phase of your research and give you some key references that would be fruitful to include in your thesis bibliography. These readings should be completed on your own time and do not adhere to particular class sessions.

While there are no due dates with this reading and you have flexibility when you complete it, be aware that you are expected to engage these readings in your thesis, so neglecting them completely is not an option. Furthermore, we strongly feel that reading some of these articles during the process of editing and analysis will inspire you to think differently about this new stage in making your film, if not also in your writing. Rather than thinking of montage as a way of ordering your footage into a coherent narrative, most of these articles are focussed on thinking deeper and more creatively about the post-production process.

Suhr, Christian and Rane Willerslev, eds.
2013Transcultural Montage. New York: Berghahn Books.
Read at least the following selections:
  • “Introduction, Montage as an Amplifier of Invisibility” (p.1-15)
  • “Montage as an Analytic” (p.17-19)
    • Nielsen, Morten. “Temporal Aesthetics, On Deleuzian Montage in Anthropology” (pp. 40-57).
    • Irving, Andrew. “Into the Gloaming: A Montage of the Senses” (pp. 76-96)
  • “Montage in Writing” (p. 97-99)
    • Dalsgaard, Anne Line. “Being a Montage.” (pp. 100-105)
    • Salamon, Karen Lisa. “Mind the Gap.” (pp. 145-158)
  • “Montage in Film” (p. 159-162)
    • Hogel, Jakob Kirstein. “Montage as Analysis in Ethnography and Documentary Filmmaking” (pp. 213–26).
    • Grimshaw, Anna. “In Defense of Observational Cinema” (pp. 226-240).
  • “Montage in Museum Exhibitions” (p.241-2)
    • Empson, Rebecca. “Assembling Bodies: Cuts, Clusters, and Juxtapositions” (pp. 262-277)
    • Marcus, George. “Afterword. The Traffic in Montage, Then and Now.” (pp. 302-307).
Barbash, Ilisa, and Lucien Taylor.
1997Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • “Postproduction” 369-459
  • “Distribution” 460-484
VE theses available in on Bb (‘Content’)
  • Laura Ogden – text & film
  • Lise Zurne – text & film
  • Markus Enk – text & film
  • Shirley van der Maarel – text & film

Recommended readings

Murch, Walter.
2001In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press.
Borgdorff, Henk.
2012“The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research.” (Chapter 3) In The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden University Press. Link ➙
Köhn, Steffen.
2014“Screening Transnational Spaces. Anthropology’s spatial paradigms and the construction of cinematic space in ethnographic film”. Anthrovision 2.2.
MacDougall, David.
1995“Subtitling Ethnographic Films: Archetypes into Individualities.” Visual Anthropology Review 11, no. 1: 83–91.
MacDougall, David.
“Voice and Vision” In The Corporeal Image (p. 32-64).
Morphy, Howard.
1994“The Interpretation of Ritual: Reflections from Film on Anthropological Practice.” Man 29, no. 1 (March 1994): 117-146.
Pasolini, Pier Paolo.
1980“Observations on the Long Take”. October, 13 (Summer 1980), 3-6.
Ruby, Jay.
2000“Toward an Anthropological Cinema, Some conclusions and a possible Future.” In Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology, 151–80. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. See also: Link ➙ (.pdf)
Stout, Noelle.
2014“Bootlegged: Unauthorized Circulation and the Dilemmas of Collaboration in the Digital Age: Bootlegged.” Visual Anthropology Review 30 (2): 177–87.
Westmoreland, Mark R.
2005“Rubbed the Wrong Way: Making Ethnographic Film Against the Grain.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 91: 59–82.
Zhang, Jinghong.
2012“The Interaction between Visual and Written Ethnography in Subtitling.” Visual Anthropology 25, no. 5 (October 1, 2012): 439–49.