The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses

by David MacDougall

Book Overview

In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691121567
• ISBN13: 9780691121567
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"