How is film used in research, and what are the implications of using audio-visual material in the development of scientific knowledge? This book confronts the strategies and challenges of using film in research contexts with a focus on the concept of reflexivity and the relationship between the researcher and informant. Jenssen examines reflexivity with respect to specific social science methodologies and to the cultural forms of expression of modernity. She also covers the historical role of visual media in knowledge production and in the communication and dissemination of research, and shows how visual media underpin important aesthetic and ethical issues related to the construction of social life. This book is an accessible and provocative read for those in media studies and visual anthropology, as well as for all scholars and students who use film in research.

Carlos Peña is Rector of the Universidad Diego Portales and Professor of Civil Law at the Universidad de Chile. He is the author of several books, among others, El desafío constitucional (The Constitutional Challenge); Pensar el malestar (Modernization and Its Discontent); and Lo que el dinero sí puede comprar (What Money Can Buy). He is co- editor with Patricio Silva of Social Revolt in Chile: Triggering Factors and Possible Outcomes (Routledge, 2022).

Patricio Silva is Full Professor of Modern Latin American History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has authored several books and numerous articles on democratization issues in Latin America in general and in Chile in particular. He is the author of In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile and Public Probity and Corruption in Chile (Routledge, 2019).