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Observational Cinema in Ethnography by nk1347 is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses the rise of observational cinema in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking. It notes that filmmakers have increasingly focused on faithfully rendering discrete events as witnessed by the camera, without commentary or analysis, in order to allow viewers to make their own judgments. This observational approach seeks to be revelatory rather than illustrative. While the potential of using film to observe other cultures has existed since the invention of cinema, it is only recently that

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