Writing with the Camera

Documentary as Method and Methodology in Sociology
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9254-98-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Social Visualities

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moghimi, Habib

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.The Documentary Lens in Sociology.- 2.Documentary as Public Media.- 3.Documentary as Methodology.- 4.Documentary as a Representational Medium.- 5.Documentary as a Teaching Tool.- 6.Documentary as Archive.- 7.The Question of Sociological Film.

Über Autor(innen)

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.