HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Sociology & Anthropology

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Lior Beserman (Assistant)

Coordinator Email: liorbeserman@gmail.com

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Prof Tamar El-Or

Course/Module description:
During the 20-22/11, the sixth ethnographic festival will take place in Jerusalem Cinematheque. This is a joint project of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Cinematheque.
Proposed course is intense and overwhelming. Four lectures - workshops and mandatory watching a six films. The lectures will be held a mornings Festival (20-22/11) at the Cinematheque between 10-13 and on Monday the 19/11. films take place starting from 16:00 pm.

Course/Module aims:
Introduce students to the field of visual anthropology as a documentary, interpretive, experimental and artistic field. Create for the Students new possibilities for research and thought, through ethnographic film.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The student will know other worlds, different and similar, through a medium that academia is not frequently used. They will experience encounters with artists and reviewers of this field, and will be revealed to forms of non-verbal reflection and review documentation.

Attendance requirements(%):
Mandatory attendance

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: - Watching 6 films
- Workshop and lecture

Course/Module Content:
Monday, 19.11 Opening lecture, Prof. Tamar El Or: Ethnography as text and image, the history of visual anthropology.
Tuesday, 20.11 - (title will be delivered soon)
Wednesday, 21.11 - Meeting with the festival guest. conversation regarding the personal and the social in ethnographic cinema.
Thursday, 22.11 - meeting with other directors (hour), summary and preparation for the course assignment with Prof. Tamar El Or.

Required Reading:
Visual anthropology‎ - E journal

Belting, Hans. An Anthropology of Images :‎ Picture, Medium, Body. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Collier, John. Visual anthropology :‎ photography as a research method.‎
Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press, 1986.

Davis, Whitney. A general theory of visual culture. Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 2011.

Made to be seen :‎ perspectives on the history of visual anthropology. edited by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

The documentary film book. edited by Brian Winston.‎ Basingstoke, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Pink, sarah. Doing visual ethnography :‎ images, media, and representation in research. London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2001.

Pink, sarah. The future of visual anthropology :‎ engaging the senses.‎ London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Rethinking visual anthropology /‎ edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1997.

Fields of vision :‎ essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography /‎ edited by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1995

Hocks, P. (Ed.). [1975 (2009)]. Principles of visual anthropology. Walter de Gruyter.‏

Taylor, Lucien. Visualizing theory : selected essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 / edited by Lucien Taylor.

קולנוע / עורך: יהודה שנהב, גליון של תיאורה ובקרת, מס’ 18, 2001.
http://theory-and-criticism.vanleer.org.il/_cid_19.aspx

ברת, רולן, מחשבות על הצילום. ירושלים : כתר, 1988.

בנימין, ולטר, היסטוריה קטנה של הצילום. תל אביב : בבל, תשס"ד, 2004.

דובדבני, שמוליק. גוף ראשון, מצלמה : קולנוע תיעודי אישי בישראל. ירושלים : כתר. 2010.

עורכים: חיים בראשית, שלמה זנד, משה צימרמן. קולנוע וזיכרון - יחסים מסוכנים?. ירושלים : מרכז זלמן שזר לתולדות ישראל, תשס"ד, 2004.

סונטג, סוזן. הצילום כראי התקופה. תל-אביב : עם עובד, 1979.

גיל-גלזר, יערה. ספר הצילום התיעודי : ביקורת חברה ותרבות בארה"ב בתקופת השפל הכלכלי והניו-דיל. תל-אביב : רסלינג, 2013.

שפירא, יובל. אמנות "האתנוגרפיה" של יורגן לת’ : מהפכה מתודולוגית בחסות האנתרופולוגיה הויזואלית / מאמר המוגש כעבודת תזה. ירושלים : האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, [2012].

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
Students will be required to write a paper based on two of the films they saw.
In addition, students will be required to write a brief report about all six films as a condition to submit the final paper