Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed. The book co

'Direct Cinema' is a comprehensive study of the seminal 'direct cinema' movement of 1960s America.

David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, In

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that t