Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Folklore, Film, and Video: In the Beginning -- The Early Documentary -- Defining Documentary -- Flaherty and the Romantic Documentary -- City Symphonies -- Vertov's Montage -- Grierson and the British School: Films of Occupational Groups -- Nationalism -- Romanticism to Realism -- Shifting Paradigms: Film and Folklore -- Cinema Verite -- Postverite: Documentary as an Art Form -- Documentary Films as Expressions of the Self: Feminist, Minority, and Third World Films -- The Documentary as Folk History -- Defining the Ethnodocumentary: Documenting the Other -- Ethnographies on Celluloid: Event Films -- The Narrated "Story": Ethnographic Romanticism -- Sequence Filming of Events -- Gardner's Interpretative Montage as Ethnographic Romanticism -- Shared Anthropology: The Work of Jean Rouch -- Reconstruction: The Netsilik Eskimo Series -- Observational Cinema -- Conveying the Cultural Point of View -- Blended Voices -- Culture Clash: The Global Village -- Ethnography as Folklore -- 2. The Folkloric Film: Definition and Methodology,Texts and Contexts -- The Early Film Movement and Folklore -- Re-creating Previous Models -- A Methodology for Analyzing Intent, Content, and the Self -- Films Documenting Texts and Artifacts -- Historic Reconstruction -- Cultural Contexts: Films Emphasizing Communities and Regions -- 3. Documentation: Interactional Events and Individual Portraits -- Process and Event Films -- Portraits of Artists and Performers -- Films of Negotiation -- Focus and Technique in Folklore Films -- 4. A Search for Self: Filmmakers Reflecton Their Work -- Choice of Subject -- Revealing the Self -- Training: A Process of Discovery -- Collaboration and Compromise -- 5. Projecting the Self: Filmic Technique and Construction -- Editing "Truths".

Sound Devices: The Filmmaker's "Voice" -- Tools of Choice -- 6. Structure Shifts and Style: A Montage of Voices and Images -- Ethical Problems and Negotiated Films -- or, Is Everybody Happy? -- Funding-For Love or Money or Both -- Distribution, or, Getting It Out There -- Film as Text, Film as Experience -- Film: The Vehicle for Event and Performance -- 7. Visions of Ourselves -- Folklore Films and Documentary Modes -- Video Reflections -- Filmography -- Notes -- References -- Index.