A Resource for the Study of Early Ethnographic Film
Voyage en Angola de Marcel Borle : pratiques amateurs et cinéma ethnographique. In Benoît Turquety and Valérie Vignaux, eds., L’ Amateur en cinéma : un autre paradigme. Histoire, esthétique, marges et institutions, pp. 96-107. Paris: AFRHC
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Ethnography at the Powell-Cotton Museum. Newsletter (Museum Ethnographers Group) 11, April 1981, pp. 35-41
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The art of national projection. Basil Wright’s Song of Ceylon. In Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, eds., Documenting the Documentary, pp.83-98. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Song of Ceylon. An interview with Basil Wright. In Kevin MacDonald and Mark Cousins, eds., Imagining Reality: the Faber Book of Documentary, pp.102-111. London: Faber and Faber. Originally published in Film-Maker’s Newsletter, 9(1) in November 1975.
To experience Song of Ceylon. Senses of Cinema 62. Available on-line here.
Basil Wright’s Song of Ceylon. In Lewis Jacobs, ed., The Documentary Tradition, pp.101-104. W.W.Norton. Originally published in the journal Film Art in 1935.
The People of the Aures Massif. The Geographical Journal 65 (1): 24-31.
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Cinema and ethnology. Discovery 6: 325-330
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‘Im Deutschen Sudan’. Film D1221 des IWF, Göttingen 1977. Publikationen zu Wissenschaftlichen Film, Sektion Ethnologie, Serie 8, no. 3. Göttingen: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film.
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100 years of image control: the case of J.C. Hamster’s films for the Dutch Colonial Institute. Early Popular Visual Culture 11(4): 312-321.
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