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Trading a Notebook for a Camera: Toward a Theory of Collaborative, Ethnopoetic Filmmaking |
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McGuire, Mark Patrick
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.15 n.1 |
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| Date | 2014.05 |
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| Pages | 164 - 198 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Special Issue: Buddhism and Film
Mark Patrick McGuire is a documentary filmmaker and associate professor of Humanities at John Abbott College in Montréal.Address: Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion, John Abbott College 21, 275 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec H9X 3L9, Canada. Email: |
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| Keyword | Documentary Film Production & Direction; Motion Pictures -- Production & Direction; Motion Picture Industry; Motion Picture Cameras; Cinematography Equipment |
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| Abstract | In this article I elaborate and reflect upon the representation of contemporary Japanese mountain ascetic practitioners in an immersive, collaboratively produced documentary film. My intent with this self-reflexive methodology has been to clarify how the continuous presence and participation in ascetic training by two North Americans with camera equipment most certainly altered the nature of our interaction with fellow Shugendô participants and guides, shaped the footage we captured, and determined the kind of story we could tell. I attempt here to shed further light upon important decisions, challenges and dilemmas that emerged with reference to key texts, films and discussions that shaped our collaborative filmmaking sensibilities and practices. Readers interested in the practice and representation of Tantric Buddhism, asceticism, Japanese religious and cultural life, and Shugendô may find these reflections of interest and value. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 164
Overview of the article 166
I. What is Shugendo? 167
Why do Shugendo? 167
Who knows about Shugendo? 168
II. ‘Inscribing a present’ (Geertz) 169
Reflecting upon the embodied practice of shugyo 170
III. Collaborative construction of the factory forest scene 171
Evoking the complementarity of the Dual Realm Mandala 171
Documentary film as educational supplement 172
‘Hurricanes of fire’ unleashed upon urban Japan 172
Complicity in the factory forest 173
Representations not immune from catharsis (Behar, Rosaldo) 173
Vicariously vulnerable observer 174
‘Reconstructing “Aha” moments’ in Buddhist documentary (Burger) 176
Collaborative, participatory filmmaking 177
‘Un-emphatic moments’ (MacDougall) in a Tantric tradition 179
More than flies on the wall 181
Partisanship and advocacy in filmmaking 182
Sliding toward rebirth 183
IV. Towards an ethnopoetics of ascetic filmmaking 183
Aesthetic and ethical concerns coalesce 184
Ascetic filmmaking 186
Attentive hospitality 186
Revealing traces of our interaction with co-participants 187
Negotiating reinsertion of our presence with Abela 187
Concluding thoughts 188
Acknowledgements 190
Notes 191
References 194
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2014.890349 |
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| Hits | 77 |
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| Created date | 2015.11.11 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.14 |
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