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Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic film making, 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 Andre 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. They make a new case for the importance of observational work in an emerging experimental anthropology, arguing that this medium exemplifies a non-textual anthropology that is both analytically rigorous and epistemologically challenging.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Observational Cinema
• Author: Amanda Ravetz, Anna Grimshaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780253221582
• ISBN: 0253221587
• ID: 05188373
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 352 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. November 2009

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