Writing with the Camera
Documentary as Method and Methodology in Sociology
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Beschreibung
This Palgrave Pivot book examines documentary filmmaking as a sociological method and methodology. Working across public sociology, visual sociology, film studies and arts-based research, it argues that documentaries do not simply record social life but help organise how social realities are seen, researched, taught and remembered. The book develops the concept of sociological film through the relationship between sociological imagination and filmic imagination, showing how framing, montage, voice, sound and duration can become forms of sociological reasoning.
Chapters consider documentary as public media, research methodology, representational practice, teaching tool and archival form. Through discussions of observational, interview-based, reflexive, participatory and performative approaches, the book analyses how documentary practice shapes knowledge, public engagement, ethical accountability and the representation of everyday life. Case studies include films concerned with migration, labour, neighbourhood, disability, institutional life, environmental sustainability and historical memory.
Writing with the Camera will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, visual sociology, public sociology, documentary studies, visual anthropology, media studies and qualitative, creative and participatory research methods.
Habib Moghimi is a media sociologist and filmmaker at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research examines public sociology, documentary film and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) cinema, migration and digital cultures through creative and participatory methods.
This Palgrave Pivot book examines documentary filmmaking as a sociological method and methodology. Working across public sociology, visual sociology, film studies and arts-based research, it argues that documentaries do not simply record social life but help organise how social realities are seen, researched, taught and remembered. The book develops the concept of sociological film through the relationship between sociological imagination and filmic imagination, showing how framing, montage, voice, sound and duration can become forms of sociological reasoning. Chapters consider documentary as public media, research methodology, representational practice, teaching tool and archival form. Through discussions of observational, interview-based, reflexive, participatory and performative approaches, the book analyses how documentary practice shapes knowledge, public engagement, ethical accountability and the representation of everyday life. Case studies include films concerned with migration, labour, neighbourhood, disability, institutional life, environmental sustainability and historical memory. Writing with the Camera will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, visual sociology, public sociology, documentary studies, visual anthropology, media studies and qualitative, creative and participatory research methods.
Positions documentary filmmaking as method and methodology for public and visual sociology Connects sociological imagination with filmic form, montage, voice and representation Examines documentary pedagogy, participatory archives and ethical public engagement
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Habib Moghimi
Themen in »Writing with the Camera«
sociological documentary documentary film-making visual sociology arts-based research methodologies interactive teaching sociological imagination visual anthropology