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 Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Prof Tamar El-Or
Course/Module description:
During the 26-28/11, 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 (26-28/11) at the Cinematheque between 10-13 and on Monday the 25/11. 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, Opening lecture, Prof. Tamar El Or: Ethnography as text and image, the history of visual anthropology.
Tuesday,(title will be delivered soon)
Wednesday - Meeting with the festival guest. conversation regarding the personal and the social in ethnographic cinema.
Thursday, - 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
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