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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ISBN
9781526134127
Publisert
2019
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Manchester University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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