Book Description In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas in 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. MacDougall explores the relations between photographic images and the human body--the body of the viewer and the body behind the camera as well as the body as seen in ethnography, cinema, and photography. In a landmark essay, he discusses the need for a new field of social aesthetics, further elaborated in his reflections on filming at an elite boys' school in northern India. The theme of the school is taken up as well in his discussion of fiction and nonfiction films of childhood. The book's final section presents a radical view of the history of visual anthropology as a maverick anthropological practice that was always at odds with the...

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