Building upon the ideas from his Transcultural Cinema, the author argues for a different conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words. In ten chapters, he explores the relations between photographic images and the human body.
Introduction / Lucien Taylor -- 1. The Fate of the Cinema Subject -- 2. Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing -- 3. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film -- 4. Beyond Observational Cinema -- 5. Complicities of Style -- 6. Whose Story Is It? -- 7. Subtitling Ethnographic Films -- 8. Ethnographic Film: Failure and Promise -- 9. Unprivileged Camera Style -- 10. When Less is Less -- 11. Film Teaching and the State of Documentary -- 12. Films of Memory -- 13. Transcultural Cinema.