Herb Di Gioia
Umberto Di Gioia | |
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| Nationality | Italian, American |
Herb Di Gioia is an Italian, American documentary film director who pioneered the field of "observational cinema" in his work and impacted ethnographic film making through his contributions as a teacher at Britain’s National Film and Television School. Di Gioia's films are recognized as a significant departure from the better-known works of other observational documentarians, like David and Judith MacDougall.[1]
Work
The UCLA-educated Di Gioia was not an anthropologist by profession, but was drawn to the field by an interest in exploring the lives of ordinary people.[2] In the early 1970s, Di Gioia and his partner David Hancock became involved in the work of filmmaker Norman Miller, upon whom the National Science Foundation had bestowed a grant to produce a film series examining global ecological zones. Di Gioia and Hancock produced several films in Afghanistan which were incorporated into the Faces of Change Collection.[1]
After the death of his partner, Di Gioia focused predominantly on teaching, training anthropologists and filmmaking students at the National Film and Television School in ethnographic filmmaking.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Grimshaw, Anna. (Spring 2006) Herb Di Gioia Abstract Article published in Visual Anthropology Review Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-59. Abstract accessed September 16, 2007.
- ^ Grimshaw, Anna. The Ethnographers Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology. Cambridge UP. p. 129. ISBN 0-521-77475-6.
- ^ Grimshaw, Anna; Amanda Ravetz. Visualizing Anthropology. Bristol: Intellect Books. p. 22. ISBN 1-84150-112-3.
Filmography
- Afghan Nomads (1974)
- Afghan Village (1974)
- Naim and Jabar (1974)
- Wheat Cycle (1975)
- Peter and Jane Flint (1981)
- Peter Murray (1981)
- Duwayne Masure (1981)
- Chester Grimes (1981)