Observational cinema ; anthropology, film, and the exploration of social life
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Author
Contributions
- Ravetz, Amanda. - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind, Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
49,500 words, Guess
Page Count
198 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveobservationalcin0000grim
- ISBN-100253354242
- ISBN-139780253354242
- ISBN-139780253221582
- ISBN-100253221587
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009020624
- OCLC Control Number313659206
- Better World Books9780253221582
- Better World Books9780253354242
- Open LibraryOL23235676M
Classifications
- DDC305.8
- LCCGN347 .G753 2009
- LCCGN347.G753 2009
Description
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. The authors make a new case for the importance of observational work in an emerging experimental anthropology, arguing that this medium exemplifies a nontextual anthropology that is both analytically rigorous and epistemologically challenging.
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