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HISTORY Even before the emergence of anthropology as an academic discipline in the ) Harald E.L. Prins, "Visual Anthropology." Pp.506-525, In T.Biolsi. ed. ''A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians.'' Oxford: Blackwell Publishing]. The history of anthropological filmmaking is intertwined with that of non-fiction and documentary filmmaking. Some of the first motion pictures of the ethnographic other were made with , probably best known for his films chronicling the lives of Arctic peoples ('' Nanook Of The North '', 1922), became a filmmaker in 1913 when his supervisor suggested that he take a camera and equipment with him on an expedition north. Flaherty focused on “traditional” Eskimo ways of life, omitting to that end any signs of modernity among his film subjects (even to the point of refusing to use a rifle to help kill a walrus his informants had harpooned as he filmed them, according to Barnouw; this scene made it into ''Nanook'' where it served as evidence of their "pristine" culture). This pattern would persist in many ethnographic films to follow (see as an example Robert Gardner's '' Dead Birds ''). ]] By the 1940s, anthropologists such as , John Marshall , Robert Gardner , and Tim Asch . By focusing on these four, we can see the shape of ethnographic film" (15). Visual anthropology first found purchase in an academic setting in 1958 with the creation of the Film Study Center at Harvard 's Peabody Museum Of Archaeology And Ethnology .Jay Ruby. " The Professionalization of Visual Anthropology in the United States - The 1960s and 1970s ." To be published in the selected proceedings of ''Origins of Visual Anthropology: Putting the Past Together Conference'', June, 20 - 25 in Göttingen, Germany, 2001. At present, the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) represents the subfield in the United States as a section of the American Anthropological Association . Ethnographic films are shown each year at the Margaret Mead Film Festival . ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILMS A few well known anthropologically-minded films and filmmakers include:
POPULAR CULTURE Visual anthropology (and ethnographic films made by anthropologists) have also influenced films in popular culture such as:
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