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