Shooting Back: From Ethnographic Film to Indigenous Production/ Ethnography of Media

A Companion to Film Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 295-322

  Ginsburg, Faye ^a  

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Author keywords

Cultural forces; Ethnography; Films; Media; Social life

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EID: 84958255718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998410.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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