John Marshall (filmmaker)

John Marshall (filmmaker)

Infobox Person
name = John Marshall


caption =
birth_date = 1932
birth_place = Cambridge
death_date = April, 2005
death_place = Boston
other_names =
known_for =
occupation = anthropologist, filmmaker
nationality = American

John Marshall (1932-2005) was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Ju/'hoansi tribe (also called the !Kung Bushmen).Long, Tom. (April 27 2005) [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/27/john_marshall_72_filmed_and_aided_lives_of_kalahari_bushmen/ John Marshall, 72; filmed and aided lives of Kalahari bushmen] "The Boston Globe". Hosted at boston.com. Retrieved 1 Aug 2008.] [Eckholm, Erik. (October 9 1984) [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D02E7D9133BF93AA35753C1A962948260 As ancient ways slide into oblivion, hunter tribe faces painful choices] . New York Times. Retrieved 1 Aug 2008.] Born in Cambridge, he first traveled to the Kalahari Desert, where the tribe dwells, in 1949 in the company of his family on a trip initiated by his father Laurence Marshall, who founded the Raytheon Corporation. [http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/john-marshall.html DER founder and filmmaker, John K. Marshall] , der.org. Retrieved 1 Aug 2008.] In 1968, Marshall helped found Documentary Educational Resources, a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating the use of cross-cultural documentaries in the classroom. [ [http://www.der.org/about/ About] . der.org. Retrieved 1 Aug 2008.] In 2003, the Society for Visual Anthropology bestowed on Marshall a lifetime achievement award for his work among the hunter gatherer society. Marshall died of lung cancer in April, 2005.

[Apley, Alice and David Tamés. (June 2005) [http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/05june/marshall.htm Remembering John Marshall (1932-2005)] newenglandfilm.com Retrieved 1 Aug 2008.]

Filmography

*1957: "The Hunters"
*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: " [http://www.der.org/kalfam/ A Kalahari Family"]

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.

ee also

*Tim Asch

References

External links

*cite web|url=http://www.chimurenga.co.za/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=86
accessdate=2006-12-14
title=A Cinema of Patience: John Kennedy Marshall (1932-2005)
first=Sandeep
last=Ray
work=Chimurenga
id= ISSN 1817-0919

*cite web|url=http://kino-eye.com/rjm/
title=Remembering John Marshall|
(biographical short documentary on John Marshall)

*cite web|url=http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/03march/marshall.htm
accessdate=2006-12-27
title=Out of Africa
first=Emily
last=Jansen
work=NewEnglandFilm.com
(interview with John Marshall)

External links

*worldcat id|lccn-n85-94778


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