The Looking Machine - Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking (Paperback)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
Release date:	2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	David MacDougall
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-3411-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-5261-3411-X
Barcode:	9781526134110

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