Definition - 'Avant-garde'

of or relating to the experimental treatment of artistic, musical, visual, or literary material.

Early Ethnographic Film and Avant-garde Cinema - Audiovisual

Early Ethnographic Film and Avant-garde Cinema for Documenting Indigenous Cultures

Ethnographic film is a practice of documentary film and of visual anthropology informed by the theories, methods, and vocabulary of the discipline of anthropology, involving use of the film camera as a research tool in documenting whole, or definable parts of, cultures with methodological awareness and precision. In its strictest definition, ethnographic film constitutes a form of academic research, with an intended audience of scholars of anthropology.

(Kuhn, A. & Westwell, G. (2012). "Ethnographic Film." In A Dictionary of Film Studies).

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