Observational Cinema: the Authorial Look

  • Rodrigo Lacerda Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH), 1069-061 Lisboa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v2n1.131
Keywords: documentary, anthropology, ethnographic cinema

Abstract

Book review of Observational Cinema. Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life, by Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz (2009).

Author Biography

Rodrigo Lacerda, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH), 1069-061 Lisboa
Rodrigo Lacerda made several documentaries, namely Filhos do Tédio (2006, co-directed by Rita Alcaire) and Pelos Trilhos do Andarilho - Ao Encontro de Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira (2010). He studied Cinema and Television at London Metropolitan University and National Film and Television School, in the United Kingdom, and has a Masters in Anthropology, specialisation Visual Culture, from FCSH-UNL. Currently, he is doing research for his PhD on documentaries made by indigenous people in Brazil.

References

Anna Grimshaw e Amanda Ravetz. 2009. Observational Cinema. Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 198pp.

Published
2015-02-19
Issue
Vol 2 No 1 (2015): Expanded cinema
Section
Reviews