The Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking

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dc.contributor.authorMacDougall, David
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-02T00:31:38Z
dc.date.available2021-02-02T00:31:38Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2021-08-01T08:42:08Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.format.extent208 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-5261-3411-0en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/220997
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherManchester University Press
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnographyen_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.rights© 2019 David MacDougall
dc.titleThe Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking
dc.typeBook
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationManchester
local.contributor.affiliationMacDougall, David, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu9701590@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMacDougall, David, u9701590en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor190201 - Cinema Studiesen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo950205 - Visual Communicationen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu6269649xPUB1010en_AU
local.identifier.doi/10.7228/manchester/9781526134097.001.0001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu6269649en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata onlyen_AU

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