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Transcultural Cinema
David Macdougall
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Description for Transcultural Cinema
Paperback. The author is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. This title provides an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects, such as point-of-view and subjectivity, reflexivity, the use of subtitles, and the role of the cinema subject. Editor(s): Taylor, Lucien. Num Pages: 328 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way, To Live with Herds, A Wife among Wives, Takeover, Photo Wallahs, and Tempus de Baristas. As a theorist, he articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology, and is one of the few documentary filmmakers who writes extensively on these concerns. The essays collected here address, for instance, the difference between films and written ... Read more
David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way, To Live with Herds, A Wife among Wives, Takeover, Photo Wallahs, and Tempus de Baristas. As a theorist, he articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology, and is one of the few documentary filmmakers who writes extensively on these concerns. The essays collected here address, for instance, the difference between films and written ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
517g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691012346
SKU
V9780691012346
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About David Macdougall
David MacDougall is Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Convenor, Program in Visual Research, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, Canberra. Lucien Taylor is the author, with Ilisa Barbash, of Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos (California). Formerly, he was the editor of the journal Visual Anthropology Review, published by the American ... Read more
Reviews for Transcultural Cinema
"With the voice of an essayist that combine the artistic sensibility of a Bresson with the writerly craft of a Barthes, MacDougall thinks through a theory of the documentary in terms of epistemological issues... [T]his is a first-rate book."
Choice "David MacDougall ... has carried out more research in non-Western cultural contexts than most academic anthropologists and, as this book attests, ... Read more
Choice "David MacDougall ... has carried out more research in non-Western cultural contexts than most academic anthropologists and, as this book attests, ... Read more