Judith MacDougall
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Judith MacDougall | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
| Nationality | American |
| 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] For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker.[2] Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world.[3][4][5][6]
Early life and education
[edit]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.[7] Together, they would go on to make some 20 ethnographic films, across Australia, Africa, and India.[8]
Filmography
[edit]- Indians and Chiefs ( 1967)
- The House-Opening (1977)
- The Wedding Camels (1980)
- Takeover (1980)
- A Wife Among Wives (1981) (co-directed with David MacDougall)
- Three Horsemen (1982)
- Collum Calling Canberra (1984)
- Sunny and the Dark Horse (1986)
- Photo Wallahs (1991)
- Diyas (2001)
Bibliography
[edit]- MacDougall, David (1999). Transcultural Cinema. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691012346.
References
[edit]- ^ Maslin, Janet (October 28, 1981). "Film: Anthropologists Focus on Tribal Patriarch in Kenya". The New York Times.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (November 23, 1978). "'Wedding Camels' At the Film Forum". The New York Times.
- ^ Grimshaw, Anna (April 10, 2001). "The anthropological cinema of David and Judith MacDougall". The Ethnographer's Eye. pp. 121–148. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817670.009. ISBN 9780521773102.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "David & Judith MacDougall bio". subsol.c3.hu.
- ^ Barbash, Ilisa; MacDougall, David; Taylor, Lucien; MacDougall, Judith (1996). "Reframing Ethnographic Film: A "Conversation" with David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall". American Anthropologist. 98 (2): 371–387. doi:10.1525/aa.1996.98.2.02a00120. JSTOR 682894.
- ^ "The anthropological cinema of David and Judith Mac Dougall". The Ethnographer's Eye. Cambridge University Press. 2001. pp. 121–148. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817670.009. ISBN 9780521773102.
- ^ Internet, Chirp. "Judith MacDougall – Ronin Films – Educational DVD Sales". www.roninfilms.com.au.
- ^ Br, Tyler; Willrich, on. "Judith MacDougall | Visual Anthropology".
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