ANTH 345

Catalog description

Ethnography has become a key methodology for exploring the reception of films and learning about how people use space, technology, and products. Students will be given the opportunity to develop their own project in audience reception to film. Several films, both popular and ethnographic, will be screened with a focus on immigration. We will combine analysis of documentary (framing, cuts, sound, lighting, narrative control etc.) with anthropological representations of migration, including the experience of time and space, liminality, shifting identities, petty sovereignty, violence, activism, and the relationship between text and film.