ANTH 411. Topics in Ethnographic Film

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 013601 Grading Basis GRD (C)

An examination of current issues in the study of ethnographic film. The course studies the changing role, practice and methods of film in anthropological research and scholarship. Topics include methods and genres of ethnographic film composition; the scientific status of filmed data; cross-cultural visual literacies; narrative form as social scientific inquiry; film and sensory data; sound, subtitles and translations; “indigenous media;” and audience reception Prerequisite(s): ANTH 195 or permission of the instructor.