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HERB DI GIOIA AND DAVID HANCOCK: A CASE STUDY IN EARLY OBSERVATIONAL CINEMA
Author(s) -
GRIMSHAW ANNA
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1525/var.2006.22.1.35
Subject(s) - movie theater , observational study , ethnography , trace (psycholinguistics) , history , art history , art , visual arts , archaeology , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , pathology
Herb Di Gioia and David Hancock are key figures in the tradition of observational cinema. Their work, however, is barely known. Between 1971 and 1975 they completed a series of film that charts an observational cinema in the making. This essay is concerned to trace the process by which Di Gioia and Hancock forged a distinctive documentary path that differs in significant ways from the more established model identified with David and Judith MacDougall. A proper appreciation of their work is central to any critical assessment of observational cinema as a mode of ethnographic enquiry .