THROUGH NAVAJO EYES / CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Introduction
PART ONE

CHAPTER 1 How Do People Structure Reality Through Film? Some Problems in Communication, Anthropology, and Film

Some Questions About Film

CHAPTER 2 A Look at Film As If It Were a Language
CHAPTER 3 The Navajo
PART TWO

CHAPTER 4 The Method of Research

Participant Observation in Film Research
Choosing the Community and the Students
The Community Agrees

CHAPTER 5 The Lives of Some of the Navajo Students

CHAPTER 6 Teaching Navajos about Cameras and Film

The First Day: Getting Ready
The Second Day: How the Camera Works
The First Shots and the Notion of Editing
The Developmental Structure of Film
The Practice Films
They Start Filming
Susie and Her Family Get Involved in Filming
A Visual Record

CHAPTER 7 The Community Attends the World Premiere
PART THREE

CHAPTER 8 Analysis

The Way We Intend to Analyze Our Data

CHAPTER 9 Narrative Style

Walking
Face Close-ups

CHAPTER 10 Sequencing Film Events

“The Horse Has to Come After the Footprints of the Horse”

CHAPTER 11 Who Can Be an Actor in a Navajo Film

CHAPTER 12 “They Handle the Equipment Like Pros”

CHAPTER 13 Motion or Eventing

The Long Journey and the Origin Myth

CHAPTER 14 Intrepid Shadows and the Outsider

CHAPTER 15 How Groups in Our Society Act When Taught to Use Movie Cameras

Previous and Continuing
Socio-Documentary Research
Alternative Expectations
Cross Group Comparisons
Topics and Activities

CHAPTER 16 Some concluding Thoughts
APPENDIX A Brief Summary of the Films Made by the Navajo
Bibliography
Index
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