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Syllabus Ethnographic Film - 53254
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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 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].


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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 %
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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
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
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