50-2101 Ethnographic Films

Customs and cultures from around the world are explored through films on societies and their cultures made by anthropologists and filmmakers. Course will investigate the history and purposes of ethnographic films, and will address questions of ethics, politics, finances, and techniques as they impact creation of these visual representations. Different approaches and problems faced by filmmakers and anthropologists in documenting and describing social groups and their cultures will be studied.

3 Credits
WI GA SS
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II