I am available to meet to provide feedback on your major projects anytime up to 24 hours before the projects are due, excluding weekends and holidays. TENTATIVE Course Plan (It may change to better accommodate your learning needs) Topic Date Readings What is due? T Oct 13 Syllabus Questions Overview of syllabus Syllabus R1: What is TH Oct 15 culture? What is Introductions The Ax Fight ethnographic film? Post on Moodle by Story of film Wed Oct 14 7pm & bring hard copy to class! Watch: 1) The Cabbage Fairy (1896) 1st R2: What would T Oct 20 Female Filmmaker and make these three The Tradition Ethnographer?—France films ethnographic? 2) The Lumiere Brother’s—First Discuss similarities Films (1895)—France and differences 3) Man With A Movie Camera Vertov among them. Cinematic Orchestra (1929)—Soviet Post on Moodle by Union Monday Oct 19 7pm & bring hard copy to class! R3: How is the TH Oct 22 relationship Watch: between human and Nanook of the North (also known nature depicted in as A Story Of Life and Love In the this film? What did Actual Arctic)—US (1922) you learn about the organization of family and everyday life? How does this compare to the Man With a
I am available to meet to provide feedback on your major projects anytime up to 24 hours before the projects are due, excluding weekends and holidays. TENTATIVE Course Plan (It may change to better accommodate your learning needs) Topic Date Readings What is due? Overview of syllabus Introductions T Oct 13 TH Oct 15 Syllabus The Ax Fight Story of film Syllabus Questions R1: What is culture? What is ethnographic film? Post on Moodle by Wed Oct 14 7pm & bring hard copy to class! The Tradition T Oct 20 Watch: 1) The Cabbage Fairy (1896) 1st Female Filmmaker and Ethnographer?—France 2) The Lumiere Brother’s—First Films (1895)—France 3) Man With A Movie Camera Vertov Cinematic Orchestra (1929)—Soviet Union R2: What would make these three films ethnographic? Discuss similarities and differences among them. Post on Moodle by Monday Oct 19 7pm & bring hard copy to class! TH Oct 22 Watch: Nanook of the North (also known as A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic)—US (1922) R3: How is the relationship between human and nature depicted in this film? What did you learn about the organization of family and everyday life? How does this compare to the Man With a