Week 4 – Feb 1 and 3: Observational cinema and the moving image in Anthropology I
Readings: Banks & Morphy: chapter 14; Grimshaw & Ravetz 2009: chapters 1, 2 and 4.
Screenings:
Nanook of the North (by Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Song of Ceylon (by Basil Wright, 1935)
Chronique d'un été (by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1960)
Paisà (by Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
Interview with Richard Leacock and Robert Drew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsAnUmIzYY
DUE February 3: Film excerpt analysis