Screening List and Accompanying Articles

Introduction to Visual Anthropology

ANTH 195/295

B. Broce, bbroce@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu

University of Vermont, Summer 1999, Summer 2000

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Tues, 5/25/99:

Nanook of the North (69 mins.) 1922; Robert Flaherty

The Hunters (72 mins.) 1956; John Marshall

Reading: John Marshall, "Filming and Learning" in The Cinema of John Marshall edited by Jay Ruby (1993)

 

Wed, 5/26/99:

Dead Birds (83 mins.) 1963; Robert Gardner

Readings: Robert Gardner, "On the Making of Dead Birds " in The Dani of West Irian Karl Heider (1972)

Jay Ruby, "An Anthropological Critique of the Films of Robert Gardner" in Journal of Film and Video (Winter 1991)

 

Thurs, 5/27/99:

The Feast (29 mins.) 1970; and, The Ax Fight (30 mins.) 1975; Timothy Asch

Reading: Jay Ruby, "Out of Sync- The Cinema of Tim Asch" in Visual Anthropology Review (Spring 1995)

 

Friday, 5/28/99:

The Navajo Film Series 1966; Sol Worth and John Adair

Reading: Sol Worth and John Adair, "Navajo Filmmakers" in American Anthropology 72(1) (Feb. 1970)

 

Monday, 5/31/99:

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (53 mins.) 1976; Gary Kildea and Jerry Leach

Reading: Jerry W. Leach, "Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket" in Anthropological Filmmaking (1987)

 

Tues, 6/1/99:

Photo Wallahs (59 mins.) 1991; David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall

 

Wed, 6/2/99:

Les Maitres Fous (30 mins.) 1953; Jaguar (91 mins.) 1954; La Pyramide Humaine (90 mins.) 1958-59; Chronicle of a Summer (90 mins.) 1961; and Les Tambours D'avant: Turu et Bitti (10 mins.); Jean Rouch

Readings: Peter Loizos, "Challenging Documentation- Realism: 3 early experiments by Jean Rouch" in Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self-Consciousness (1993)

Joseph Gonzales, "Les Maitres Fous" to be published in Censorship: An International Encyclopedia (Spring 1999)

 

Thurs, 6/3/99:

Number our Days (29 mins.) 1976; and, In Her Own Time (60 mins.) 1985; Lynne Littman and Barbara Myerhoff

Reading: Gelya Frank, "The Ethnographic Films of Barbara Myerhoff: Anthropology, Feminism, and the Politics of Jewish Identity" in Women Writing Culture (1993)

 

Friday, 6/4/99:

Whose Paintings? (47 mins.) 1995; Jayasinhji Jhala

 

Monday 6/7/99:

The Couple in a Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey (30 mins.) 1993; Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia Babakiueria; Don Featherstone

 

Tues, 6/8/99:

N!ai, Story of a !Kung Woman (58 mins.) 1980; John Marshall

 

Wed, 6/9/99:

Disappearing World Series: Kayapo: Out of the Forest (52 mins.) 1974; Terry Turner and Michael Beckam

Readings: Terence Turner, "Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video" in Anthropology Today 8(6) (Dec. 1992)

James C. Faris, "A Response to Terence Turner" in Anthropology Today 9(1) (Feb. 1993)

 

Thurs, 6/10/99:

Cannibal Tours (70 mins.) 1987; Dennis O'Rourke

Reading: Dean MacCannell, "Cannibal Tours" in Visualizing Theory ed. by Lucien Taylor (1994)