Looking Machine - Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking

This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films.

List of 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

About the author

David MacDougall is an Honorary Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University, Canberra

Summary

This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

Product details

• Authors: David Macdougall, MacDougall David
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781526134097
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3409-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography; Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography; Anthropology, Creative Practic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Documentary films, Social and cultural anthropology