The Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking

by David MacDougall

Book Overview

This new collection of essays presents the latest thoughts of one of the world's leading ethnographic filmmakers and writers on cinema. It will provide essential reading for students in cinema studies, filmmaking, and visual anthropology. The dozen wide-ranging essays give unique insights into the history of documentary, how films evoke space, time and physical sensations, and the intellectual and emotional links between filmmakers and their subjects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152613411X
• ISBN13: 9781526134110
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"