The Looking Machine : Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking (Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography)

MacDougall, David

Manchester University Press（2019/01発売）

Manchester University Press（2019/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526134110
• DDC分類 070.18

Full Description

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.

Contents

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