John Marshall (filmmaker)

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John Kennedy Marshall (1932–April 22, 2005) was a filmmaker and anthropologist, particularly known for his involvement with the field of visual anthropology.

He has been described as [a] "foul-tempered Hub brahmin who after spending 50 years filming the people of Namibia might be America’s greatest barely known documentarian"^[1].

John Marshall

1 Filmography
2 Publications
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Filmography

1957: The Hunters: A !Kung Bushmen Film
1961: A Group Of Women
1962: A Joking Relationship
1967: Titicut Follies (cameraman)
1969: An Argument About Marriage
1969: ‘N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
1969: A Curing Ceremony
1970: Inside/Outside Station 9(Pittsburgh Police Series)
1970: The Melon Tossing Game
1970: The Lion Game
1971: Three Domestics (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1971: Vagrant Woman (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1971: Bitter Melons
1972: Investigation of a Hit and Run (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1972: 901/904 (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1972: Debe’‘s Tantrum
1972: Playing With Scorpions
1972: A Rite of Passage
1972: !Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment
1972: A Wasp Nest
1973: After the Game (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: The Informant (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: A Legal Discussion of a Hit and Run (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: Manifold Controversy (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: Nothing Hurt But My Pride (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: Two Brothers (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: $21 or 21 Days (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: Wrong Kid (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: You Wasn't Loitering (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: Henry Is Drunk (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: The 4th, 5th, & Exclusionary Rule (Pittsburgh Police Series)
1973: Men Bathing
1974: The Meat Fight
1974: Baobab Play
1974: Children Throw Toy Assegais
1974: Tug-Of-War-Bushmen
1978: If It Fits
1980: N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman
1985: Pull Ourselves Up Or Die Out
1987: The !Kung San: Traditional Life
1988: The !Kung San: Resettlement
1990: To Hold Our Ground: A Field Report
2001: Between Two Worlds: John Marshall
2002: A Kalahari Family

[edit] Publications

By John Marshall

"Filming and Learning," in a special edition of Visual Anthropology entitled The Cinema of John Marshall, Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1993
"Plight of the Bushman," Leadership Magazine, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1985
"Where are the Ju/'hoansi of Nyae Nyae? Changes in a Bushman Society 1950-1981," with Claire Ritchie, for Center for African Studies, University of Capetown, Cape Town, South Africa, 1984
"Death Blow to the Bushmen," in Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1984
"Urban Film," with Emilie de Brigard in Visual Anthropology, Paul Hockings, Editor, H. Mouton & Co,, The Hague, 1975
"Man as a Hunter," Natural History Museum, 1958

On John Marshall

Tomaselli, Keyan, Visual Anthropology, Encounters in the Kalahari, Chicago, 1999.
Ruby, Jay, The Cinema of John Marshall, Switzerland, 1993.
Kapfer, J., Petermann, W., Thoms, R.,Jager und Gejagte John Marshall und seine Filme, Germany, 1991.