The Village, a Transitional Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toni De Bromhead (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 237-259 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2020.1746622 |
| OpenAlex | W3022803931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
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 time, and considers to what extent it was also rooted in old forms
Aesthetics · Art · Documentary film · Film studies · Media studies · Movie theater · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |