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Observational Cinema – Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life

Autor Anna Grimshaw, Amanda Ravetz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 noi 2009
Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz provide the first critical history and in-depth appraisal of this movement, examining key works, filmmakers, and theorists, from André Bazin and the Italian neorealists, to American documentary films of the 1960s, to extended discussions of the ethnographic films of Herb Di Gioia, David Hancock, and David MacDougall. They make a new case for the importance of observational work in an emerging experimental anthropology, arguing that this medium exemplifies a non-textual anthropology that is both analytically rigorous and epistemologically challenging.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253221582
ISBN-10: 0253221587
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 25 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Preface; AcknowledgmentsPart 1 1. What Is Observational Cinema?; 2. Social Observers: Robert Drew, David and Albert Maysles, Frederick WisemanPart 2 3. Observational Cinema in the Making: The Work of Herb Di Gioia and David Hancock; 4. Observational Cinema on the Move: The Work of David MacDougallPart 3 5. Rethinking Observational Cinema; 6. Toward an Experimental AnthropologyNotes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"Grimshaw and Ravetz not only demonstrate felicitous linkages between visual and social anthropology, which is highly welcomed, but between anthropological gazes and artistic visions. We need more of these kinds of expanded multidisciplinary works for they break new ground and expand the space of imagination." Paul Stoller, author of The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey

Notă biografică

Anna Grimshaw is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University. She is author of Servants of the Buddha and The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology.
Amanda Ravetz is Research Fellow at Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University.


Descriere

Film as visual ethnography