In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic
filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas
from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new
conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in
which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words. In ten
chapters, MacDougall explores the relations between photographic
images and the human body-the body of the viewer and the body behind
the camera as well as the body as seen in ethnography, cinema, and
photography. In a landmark piece, he discusses the need for a new
field of social aesthetics, further elaborated in his reflections on
filming at an elite boys' school in northern India. The theme of the
school is taken up as well in his discussion of fiction and nonfiction
films of childhood. The book's final section presents a radical view
of the history of visual anthropology as a maverick anthropological
practice that was always at odds with the anthropology of words. In
place of the conventional wisdom, he proposes a new set of principles
for visual anthropology. These are essays in the classical
sense--speculative, judicious, lucidly written, and mercifully
jargon-free. The Corporeal Image presents the latest ideas from one of
our foremost thinkers on the role of vision and visual representation
in contemporary social thought.
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ISBN
9781400831562
Publisert
2013
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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