Toni De Bromhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 121344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toni De Bromhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toni |
| FAMILY NAME | De Bromhead |
| SIGNATURE | DE BROMHEAD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blurred Boundaries
This paper examines the nature of Cosa Nostra, how it exists in parallel to the State, the way it depends on social consensus, and how it is culturally embedded within some sections of its community. This paper also examines the approach taken by the many some social anti-mafia activists in their struggle to change a way of thinking that presently makes it possible for ordinary people to tolerate if not accept the Mafia. The paper cites and shows…
The Olive Pickers
In this article de Bromhead describes how breaking the “rules” of a method through necessity may then be justified and made acceptable by that methodology itself. This occurred when making The Olive Pickers, a film that de Bromhead shot in western Sicily, which reveals the substandard living conditions of migrant workers (mostly from Africa), people who survive by harvesting produce throughout southern Italy for minimum wages
The Village, a Transitional Film
The Village, probably the first observational film to have been completed, is a “transitional” film made in 1968 at UCLA. This was during a period of creative ferment there when the departments of Theater Arts and of Anthropology came together to explore the possibility of working out a new film language that would enable the production of films that might be more useful to anthropology. This article examines what this film offers that was new at…
The Social Anti-Mafia in Western Sicily
Frustrated by the constraints imposed on visual ethnography by any one film, Toni de Bromhead has been filming around the subject of the Sicilian mafia for a quarter-century, building up a body of visual ethnography with eleven different films so far. In this paper she aims to demonstrate how these films “talk to each other” and, together, build up different themes. Each film has its own principle subject, but inevitably “trespasses” onto subject…
Arthur Howes, 1950-2004
Looking Two Ways
Réalité, film et anthropologie
Reflections on a meeting
Festival of European Ethnographic Film
The Village, a Transitional Film
The Village, probably the first observational film to have been completed, is a “transitional” film made in 1968 at UCLA. This was during a period of creative ferment there when the departments of Theater Arts and of Anthropology came together to explore the possibility of working out a new film language that would enable the production of films that might be more useful to anthropology. This article examines what this film offers that was new at…
Festival of European Ethnographic Film
Reflections on a meeting
Réalité, film et anthropologie
Looking Two Ways
Arthur Howes, 1950-2004
The Village, a Transitional Film
The Village, probably the first observational film to have been completed, is a “transitional” film made in 1968 at UCLA. This was during a period of creative ferment there when the departments of Theater Arts and of Anthropology came together to explore the possibility of working out a new film language that would enable the production of films that might be more useful to anthropology. This article examines what this film offers that was new at…
The Social Anti-Mafia in Western Sicily
Frustrated by the constraints imposed on visual ethnography by any one film, Toni de Bromhead has been filming around the subject of the Sicilian mafia for a quarter-century, building up a body of visual ethnography with eleven different films so far. In this paper she aims to demonstrate how these films “talk to each other” and, together, build up different themes. Each film has its own principle subject, but inevitably “trespasses” onto subject…
Blurred Boundaries
This paper examines the nature of Cosa Nostra, how it exists in parallel to the State, the way it depends on social consensus, and how it is culturally embedded within some sections of its community. This paper also examines the approach taken by the many some social anti-mafia activists in their struggle to change a way of thinking that presently makes it possible for ordinary people to tolerate if not accept the Mafia. The paper cites and shows…
The Olive Pickers
In this article de Bromhead describes how breaking the “rules” of a method through necessity may then be justified and made acceptable by that methodology itself. This occurred when making The Olive Pickers, a film that de Bromhead shot in western Sicily, which reveals the substandard living conditions of migrant workers (mostly from Africa), people who survive by harvesting produce throughout southern Italy for minimum wages
Sociology (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)