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ANTH 321. Anthropology and Film


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

This course provides 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.