Inciting Social Change through Film: Using Marcus Banks’s Definition of Ethnographic Film to Discuss the Films of Participant Productions

Authors

Marie Loeb, Portland State University

Subjects

Participant Productions, Ethnographic films -- Criticism and interpretation, Marcus Banks

Abstract

This article examines films produced by Participant Productions: Murderball, Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country, Syriana, and An Inconvenient Truth, using the three aspects— "intention", "event", and "reaction" as outlined by Marcus Banks (1992) to define an ethnographic film.

Faculty Mentor: Janice Haaken

DOI

10.15760/mcnair.2006.175

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8816

Recommended Citation

Loeb, Marie (2006) "Inciting Social Change through Film: Using Marcus Banks’s Definition of Ethnographic Film to Discuss the Films of Participant Productions," PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 25.
https://doi.org/10.15760/mcnair.2006.175