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

ISBN: 0253221587

ISBN13: 9780253221582

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

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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...

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