Transcultural Cinema / / David MacDougall; ed. by Lucien Taylor.

David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 25 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE
  • 1. The Fate of the Cinema Subject
  • 2. Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing
  • 3. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film
  • PART TWO
  • 4. Beyond Observational Cinema
  • 5. Complicities of Style
  • 6. Whose Story Is It?
  • 7. Subtitling Ethnographic Films
  • 8. Ethnographic Film: Failure and Promise
  • PART THREE
  • 9. Unprivileged Camera Style
  • 10. When Less Is Less
  • 11. Film Teaching and the State of Documentary
  • 12. Films of Memory
  • 13. Transcultural Cinema
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index