A Certain Tendency of the Social Science in France : to Underestimate the Cinema
Based on a certain amount of films but also from thoughts led by anthropologists, the authors of this article wish to show that the cinema is a type of knowledge merely used in social science, especially in France as it may have a function not only illustrative but epistemologic. According to this, the process engaged in the triple temporality of the cinematographic set up (shooting, editing and viewing) allows to make anthropology complex, enables it to be more precise empirically, more rigorous methodologically and more demanding theoretically.