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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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