Video Ethnography: Theory, Methods, and Ethics

✍ Scribed by David Redmon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 approaches that include senses and choices of the videographer, and the participants of the ethnography. The book will help describe and develop students‘ sensibility and awareness of this crucial aspect of video ethnography, so they can craft their own video ethnographies with a fully conscious awareness of how certain skilled and attuned approaches to audiovisual techniques can help facilitate the fullest and most dynamic encounters possible. This book is suitable for classes in ethnographic filmmaking, video ethnography and visual anthropology / sociology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Video ethnography
Lived experience
Language, text, and words
Art and lived experience: aesthetics and digital media
Media ethnography
Video ethnography and wild experience
Wild rules
Outline of video ethnography
Notes
1. Phenomenology of cinematic experience
Wild being
Aiming at the real: the language of experience
John Dewey: art as experience
Having an experience
Vitality and properties of images and sounds: Merleau-Ponty and Dewey
Vivian Sobchack: media ethnography, acts of sensing
Laura Marks: haptic ethnography
David MacDougall: contemporary examples
Contemporary relevance: a case for video ethnography
Video ethnography: audiovisual experience as sensemaking
Conclusion: practice of video ethnography
2. The wild lab: sensory ethnography
Sensory ethnography lab
Aesthetics of an experience
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Methodological characteristic #1: experiential immersion
Methodological characteristic #2: reflexive presence of the ethnographer
Methodological characteristic #3: diegetic sound
Methodological characteristic #4: encounters
Conclusion: video ethnography as sensory knowledge
Notes
3. Sweetgrass and Leviathan: case studies in video ethnography
Sweetgrass: acase study
Experiential editing
Experiential sound
Conclusion
Notes
4. Video ethnography: Sanctuary as a case study
Sanctuary: context and frameworks
Donkey representation
Video ethnography as sensuous scholarship
Video ethnography and the age of the “Anthropocene”
Methodological sensibilities: four approaches to evoking aspects of the Anthropocene
Conclusion
Notes
5. Girl Model: a case study in the methods and ethics of video ethnography
Girl Model as a case study in video ethnography
Problematic ethics and aesthetics of video ethnography
Framing the scene
Ethics and aesthetics of video ethnography
Conclusion: theoretical and methodological implications
Note
6. Film festivals, the public sphere, and the ethics of video ethnography: Kamp Katrina as a case study
Film festivals and the public sphere
Film festivals as public ethnography
Ethical challenges
Kamp Katrina: a case study of video ethnography, ethics, and the public sphere
Conclusion: experiential ethics and the public sphere
Notes
References
Index