Les professionnels de l’image à l’écran : les cinéastes animaliers se mettent en scène

Abstract

Filmmakers at work sometimes film themselves and offer spectators an exploration of what goes on behind the camera. These pictures of filmmakers work feature staging and editing which describe and accentuate specific characteristics (such as specific know-how), and provide thwarted representations of the trade. Our analysis relies on fieldwork, observations and a survey conducted for a doctoral thesis on the constitution of the profession of wildlife filmmakers in France. In their making-of, these workers of the video design the ideal image of their trade. Studying image is then likely to bring a actual element in a sociological approach questioning the making of a professional group.

Keywords

• work
• sociology
• profession
• trade
• image
• making-of