Observational Cinema: Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life

by Amanda Ravetz and Anna Grimshaw

Book Overview

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 Andr Bazin and the Italian neorealists, to American documentary films of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253221587
• ISBN13: 9780253221582
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"