1. Visual Ethnography
Fall 2008
9 13 2008

2. p. kerim friedman
kerim.oxus.net

3. ci.ndhu.edu.tw

4. savageminds.org

5. fournineandahalf.com

6. Visual Ethnography
Fall Theory
Spring Production

7. Visual Ethnography
(Fall 2008)

8. Visual Literacy

9. The Gaze

10. The Documentary
Tradition
(in Anthropology)

11. Indigenous Films

12. New Media

13. Visual Literacy
• Narrative
• Mise en Scene
• Editing
• Alternative Forms

14. Narrative

15. Three-Act Structure

16. When Harry Met Sally

17. Boys Don't Cry

18. Mise en Scene

19. Interpreting the Frame

20. Citizen Kane

21. Goodfellas

22. Editing

23. Structure

24. Battleship Potemkin

25. Breathless

26. Alternative Forms

27. Avant Garde

28. Run Lola Run

29. Flowers of Shanghai

30. Meshes in the Afternoon

31. The Gaze
• The Gendered Gaze
• The Western Gaze

32. The Gendered Gaze

33. • Berger, J. 1977. Ways of seeing.
• hooks, bell. 1993. The oppositional gaze.
• Metz, Christian. 1986. The imaginary
signifier.
• Mulvey, Laura. 1975. Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema.

34. Rear Window

35. Red Road

36. The Western Gaze

37. • Cohn, B. 1996. Colonialism and its forms of
knowledge.
• Fabian, J. 1983. Time and the other.
• Said, E. 1979. Orientalism.
• Williamson, J. 1986. Woman is an Island.

38. Black Narcissus

39. The Lover

40. The Documentary
Tradition
• Kino-Pravda
• Changing Rules
• Transcultural Cinema
• Jean Rouch

41. Kino Pravda

42. • Barnouw, E. 1993. Documentary.
• MacDougall, D. 1998. Transcultural cinema.
(Chapters 1 & 2)
• Ruby, J. 1995. Out of Sync:The Cinema of Tim
Asch.
• ———. 2000. The Aggie Must Come First:
Robert Flaherty's Place in Ethnographic Film
History.

43. Nanook of the North

44. Man with a Movie Camera

45. Changing Rules

46. • MacDougall, D. 1998. Transcultural cinema.
(Chapters 3-6)
• Nichols, B. 1991. The Ethnographer's Tale.
• Ruby, J. 1991. Speaking For, Speaking About,
Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside.

47. The Ax Fight

48. Lorang's Way

49. Dead Birds

50. Transcultural Cinema

51. • MacDougall, D. 1998. Transcultural cinema.
(Chapters 7-13)

52. Cannibal Tours

53. N!ai :
The Story of a !Kung Woman

54. Jean Rouch

55. • Loizos, P. 1993. Innovation in ethnographic
film: From innocence to self-consciousness.
• Stoller, P. 1992. The cinematic griot:The
ethnography of jean rouch.

56. Les Maitres Fous

57. Moi un Noir

58. Jaguar

59. Indigenous Films

60. • Ginsburg, F. 1991. Indigenous Media: Faustian
Contract or Global Village?
• Michaels, E. 1994a. Aboriginal Content:Who's
Got It - Who Needs It?
• ———. 1994b. For a Cultural Future: Francis
Jupurrurla Makes TV at Yuendumu.
• Turner, T. 1992. Defiant Images:The Kayapo
Appropriation of Video.

61. Video in the Villages Presents
Itself

62. Marangmotxingmo Mirang

63. The Fast Runner

64. New Media

65. • Friedman, P. 2008. Massively Multiplayer
Online Anthropology.
• Shirky, C. 2008. Here comes everybody:The
power of organizing without organizations.

66. The Machine is Us/Ing Us

67. Steal This Film II

68. Student Presentations
Taiwanese Documentary Films

69. !
slideshare.com/kerim

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