'The scope of this book is extraordinary and, in my experience, unprecedented in the published record. [...] I suggest that this book will be of interest to practising ethnographic film-makers, film historians, and social anthropologists who would be interested in looking at the historical record for insights on how to develop their craft.'
Carlo Cubero, Social Anthropology

' Paul Henley’s latest book examines filmic productions ranging from the end of the 19th century to the 2010s. Not only is Beyond Observation impressive for its sheer size (it is uncommon to see books of this length in the current academic publishing scene) and for the variety of epochs and styles that it covers, it is also brave of the author for trying to systematize these examples under different declinations of the idea of authorship. [...] His prose is always straight to the point and the crucial concepts are always defined in accessible but rigorous terms, something increasingly rare nowadays and that will make this book very useful to students of visual anthropology and of ethnographic film in particular.'
Lorenzo Ferrarini (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester), Visual Anthropology

'Beyond Observation is subtitled A History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film, and its first part, brilliantly and indispensably, is just that. It offers a balanced and insightful account of the archive, warts and all, focused on its basically European, indeed (especially as we approach the present, Anglophone) makers.'
Brian Winston (University of Lincoln), Studies in Documentary Film