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 121-059 Exploring Culture Through Film

Note

Formerly available as 136-275/375/009. Students who have completed 136-275/375/009 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Douglas Lewis

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Subject Description

This subject is an introduction to visual anthropology, requiring critical reading of texts on the history, theory and methods of ethnographic film making and the analysis of a selected corpus of historical and contemporary ethnographic films. Students who complete this subject should have acquired a basic knowledge of the utility of film in ethnographic research and the history of ethnographic film; have an understanding of the relationship of ethnography to the media in which it is composed; have acquired a knowledge of the theory, methods, and major empirical results of visual anthropology; have examined critically problems of text and representation in ethnography.



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