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Beyond observation
This book offers a historical account of a genre of cinema that combines
two distinct practices: the craft of non-fiction film-making, and ethnography, a particular approach to carrying out and representing social
research. It is an account that straddles a period of approximately 120 years,
from the middle of last decade of the nineteenth century, when the moving
image camera was a primitive instrument that was troublesome and expensive
to use, and which was therefore reserved to professional elites, mostly in
the global North, to the middle of the second decade of the twenty-first
century, by which time digital technology had brought the possibility of
film-making within the range of both the technical capabilities and budgets
of many millions of people the world over.
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