This new collection of essays presents the latest thoughts of one of the world's leading ethnographic filmmakers and writers on cinema. It will provide essential reading for students in cinema studies, filmmaking, and visual anthropology. The dozen wide-ranging essays give unique insights into the history of documentary, how films evoke space, time and physical sensations, and the intellectual and emotional links between filmmakers and their subjects. In an era of reality television, historical re-enactments, and designer packaging, MacDougall defends the principles that inspired the earliest practitioners of documentary cinema. He urges us to consider how the form can more accurately reflect the realities of our everyday lives. Building on his own practice in filmmaking, he argues that this means resisting the pressures for self-censorship and the inherent ethnocentrism of our own society and those we film.
| ISBN: | 9781526134097 |
| Publication date: | 11th January 2019 |
| Author: | David MacDougall |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography |
| Genres: |
Anthropology Film history, theory or criticism Society and Social Sciences |
This new collection of essays presents the latest thoughts of one of the world's leading ethnographic filmmakers and writers on cinema. It will provide essential reading for students in cinema studies, filmmaking, and visual anthropology. The dozen wide-ranging essays give unique insights into the history of documentary, how films evoke space, time and physical sensations, and the intellectual and emotional links between filmmakers and their subjects. In an era of reality television, historical re-enactments, and designer packaging, MacDougall defends the principles that inspired the earliest practitioners of documentary cinema. He urges us to consider how the form can more accurately reflect the realities of our everyday lives. Building on his own practice in filmmaking, he argues that this means resisting the pressures for self-censorship and the inherent ethnocentrism of our own society and those we film.
The Looking Machine features in the following genres: Anthropology, Film history, theory or criticism, Society and Social Sciences
The Looking Machine is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Looking Machine was written by David MacDougall and published by Manchester University Press
The Looking Machine has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography series
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