SHORT COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY: DOCUMENTARIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS AT GOLDSMITHS
SHORT COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY: DOCUMENTARIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS AT GOLDSMITHS
booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-visual-anthropology-goldsmiths-university-of-london-tickets-48907337162 info: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/introduction-visual-anthropology/ Description of the course In this course we will identify what makes an ethnographic film work. We will ask: how can we portray other people’s way of life on film truthfully? What is the appropriate way to represent them? Is it possible to translate their experience objectively? What does the ethnographic method bring to filmmaking? We will consider how anthropology has used filmmaking since the birth of cinema and how filmmaking practices in anthropology have evolved with advances in technology. This course will introduce you to what you can gain in understanding and making images with the tools of anthropology. Each week we will watch an ethnographic film which helped to shape the discipline of visual anthropology. Each film will be followed by a discussion considering the pros and cons of the film, the filmmaker’s perspective, the way the subject matter is represented and the methods used.
If you have any questions please get in touch by emailing us at shortcourses@gold.ac.uk Date and Time
from Wed, 3 Oct 2018, 18:30 – 20:30 to Wed, 12 Dec 2018 Weekly plan week 1 3/10/2018 ROMANTICISING THE OTHER
*week 2 10/10/2018 CLASSIC ETHNOGRAPHIC FIL*M
week 3 17/10/2018 OBSERVATIONAL CINEMA
*week 4 24/10/2018 CINE*MA VERITE
week 5 31/10/2018 INDIGENOUS CINEMA
week 6 7/11/2018 ---BREAK--
week 7 14/11/2018 EXOTIC VOYEURISM
*week 8 21/11/2018 DOCU*MENTARY AND ACTIVISM
*week 9 28/11/2018* REFRAMING ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
week 10 5/12/2018 NON-NARRATIVE
week 11 12/12/2018 ETHNOGRAPHIC FICTION
Barbara Knorpp is an anthropologist with a special interest in film history. Her work is situated in the interdisciplinary arena between anthropology, cinema, media studies, and fine art. Before her PhD she worked in an international photo press agency, collaborated with artists, and worked in documentary and fiction film in Germany, Japan, and Australia. She was a Teaching Fellow in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies at University College, London in 2015-16 and has been a Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University since 2007. Barbara is also a Tutor at Open City Docs (UCL) and a member of the RAI Film Festival film committee. She has a background in Anthropology, Theatre, Film, and Television Studies, and Art History.
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