David Macdougall

The looking machine (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on cinema, anthropology and documentary filmmaking

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526134127
• Artikelnr.: 56787500

Autorenporträt

David MacDougall is an Honorary Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University, Canberra

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Filmmaking as practice 1 Looking with a camera 2
Dislocation as method 3 Camera, mind, and eye 4 Environments of childhood
Part II: Film and the senses 5 The third tendency in cinema 6 Sensational
cinema 7 The experience of colour 8 Notes on cinematic space Part III:
Film, anthropology and the documentary tradition 9 Observation in the
cinema 10 Anthropology and the cinematic imagination 11 Anthropological
filmmaking: an empirical art 12 Documentary and its doubles Bibliography
Filmography Index