[Frameworks] Ethnographic films / studies of The Other

[Chris Freeman]

I've seen them by independent filmmakers at micro cinema screenings.  I
mean what are the big ones that have come over the last 100 years of cinema
that have made it a trope?  I only know Nanook of the North.



On Friday, May 1, 2015, <nicky.hamlyn at talktalk.net> wrote:

> You seem to contradict yourself: you say 'whenever I see' etc, but then
> ask 'what are some (of these films)'? If you know you've seen some, how
> come you can't identify them?
>
> Nicky.
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>  Whenever I see an ethnographic travelogue or some study of "the other" by
> a white male at a screening, there's always a collective eye roll of
> "great, another white male putting minorities on the screen."  I know the
> trope, but I don't actually know any of those specific cliche films.
> What are some?
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