Judith MacDougall
Judith MacDougall | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 87–88) |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Ethnographic films in Africa, India and Australia The Wedding Camels |
| Spouse | David MacDougall |
| Awards | Film Prize by Royal Anthropological Institute for The Wedding Camels (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Visual anthropology, social anthropology, documentary films |
| Part of a series on the |
| Anthropology of art, media, music, dance and film |
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| Social and cultural anthropology |
Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India.[1] Also a noted still photographer, she documented the tenor of popular culture in Texas in the early 1970s.[2][3] For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker.[4] Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world and pioneers of observational cinema[5][6][7][8]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]MacDougall was born in the United States. She enrolled in the ethnographic film program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met her husband, David.[9] Together, they would go on to make some 20 ethnographic films, across Australia, Africa, and India.[10]
Filmography
[edit | edit source]- Indians and Chiefs ( 1967)
- The House-Opening (1977)
- The Wedding Camels (1977)
- Lorang's Way (1979)
- Takeover (1980)
- A Wife Among Wives (1981)
- Three Horsemen (1982)
- Stockman's Strategy (1984)
- Collum Calling Canberra (1984)
- Sunny and the Dark Horse (1986)
- Photo Wallahs (1991)
- Diyas (2001)
- The Art of Regret (2007)
- Awareness (2010)
- The Queen of the Hills (2022)
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Blount, Ben G. (May 10, 1984). "Turkana Conversations Trilogy. 3 color films by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall". American Anthropologist. 86 (3): 803–806. doi:10.1525/aa.1984.86.3.02a01050.
- Myers, Fred R. (1988). "From Ethnography to Metaphor: Recent Films from David and Judith MacDougall". Cultural Anthropology. 3 (2): 205–220. doi:10.1525/can.1988.3.2.02a00050. JSTOR 656351.
- Loizos, Peter (1993). Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-Consciousness 1955-1985. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226492273.
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- Grimshaw, Anna; Ravetz, Amanda (2009). Observational Cinema. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253354242.
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References
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External links
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