Through a Lens Darkly: the (ab)uses of cinema

Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically for each year. NOTE: the list is in progress.

Above image is part of a series of pictures depicting Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology.

A list that looks at how ethnography, ethnicity, race and anthropology have been represented (negatively and positively) on film.

NOT INCLUDED:
‘Carry On’ films.

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AUSTRALIA:
• Blunderball, or from Dr. Nofinger with Hate (1966, Albie Thoms) Richard Brennan, Arthur King,...