Corporeal Image Film, Ethnography, and the Senses

Name: Corporeal Image Film, Ethnography, and the Senses
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ISBN: 9780691121567

ISBN-10: 0691121567

ISBN-13: 9780691121567

Edition: 2006

Authors: David MacDougall

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In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praisedTranscultural Cinemaand argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words. In ten chapters, MacDougall explores the relations between photographic images and the human body-the body of the viewer and the body behind the camera as well as the body as seen in ethnography, cinema, and photography. In a landmark piece, he discusses the need for a new field of social aesthetics, further elaborated in his reflections on filming at an elite boys'…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Meaning and Being



Matter and Image



The Body in Cinema



Voice and Vision



Images of Childhood



Films of Childhood



Social Aesthetics and the Doon School



Doon School Reconsidered



The Photographic Imagination



Photo Hierarchicus: Signs and Mirrors in Indian Photography



Staging the Body: The Photography of Jean Audema



The Ethnographic Imagination



The Visual in Anthropology



Anthropology's Lost Vision



New Principles of Visual Anthropology


Filmography


Bibliography