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Karl Heider tested his theory that films in this genre work best with written accompaniment by writing a companion volume to Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds. One film in this genre includes 11 takes, each roughly nine minutes long, of a specific cable car ridden by both humans and goats and is called Manakamana. The Corporeal Image by David McDougall theorizes about this genre, which he practiced in works such as his Doon School Quintet and (*) A Wife Among Wives. It doesn’t have a French name, but Jean Rouch’s films in this genre, such as Moi, un Noir, helped launch the French New Wave movement. Robert Flaherty is often called a founder of this film genre for his 1922 film Nanook of the North. (-5[2])For 10 points, name this genre of documentary film based on participant observation and anthropology. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: ethnographic film [or ethnography; accept visual anthropology or anthropological film; prompt on documentary or documentary film or non-fiction]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>
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Eli IssoksonBrandeisHarvard122-5
Katherine LeiMITBoston College122-5
Theodore BenzmillerBoston CollegeMIT1380

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2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y771%0%29%119.80
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y20%0%100%0.00
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