The Corporeal Image - Film, Ethnography, and the Senses (Paperback)

"Embracing, generous, thought-full. David MacDougall weaves together Robbe-Grillet and Robert Flaherty, early cinema and indigenous media, films of childhood and colonial postcards to offer a fresh, compelling case for the primacy of film in the study of culture. Across a range of examples, he asks us to consider what form of knowledge cinema conveys incisively that written work grasps imperfectly. MacDougall stands as one of the great creators of, and commentators on, film working today."--Bill Nichols, author of "Introduction to Documentary" and "Representing Reality"

"This is a marvelous book, free of cant and jargon, by one of the most distinguished and reflective nonfiction filmmakers in the world today. Replete with implications for a whole host of intellectual disciplines and cultural practices, inside and outside the academy, it is an enormously exciting work."--Lucien Taylor, Film Study Center, Harvard University

"This is a terrific book, one whose arguments are provocative, thoughtful, and illuminating. Without question, it represents an important contribution to the present and future possibilities of visual anthropology in ways that are visionary and exciting, and that will be of interest to people interested in anthropology and documentary--fields in which David MacDougall is well known."--Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History, New York University

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	October 2005
Authors:	David MacDougall
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-12156-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-691-12156-7
Barcode:	9780691121567

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