Ethnographic Film
Code
711001027
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To give further knowledge, following the curricular unit Visual Anthropology wich was more general and theoretical.
2) To prepare students for the uses of image in the anthropological .professional practice.
3) To deal with hands on in different technical skills: filmmaking (the camera as a tool for investigation); treatment and editing for scientific uses (arquives, cathalogues, editing of small significant sequences); treatment and editing for a more general audience (exhibition, ethnographic films)
4) To practice with different exercices (writing and development, script, shooting, sound and image)
5) To develop a personal project.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
a) The concepts of Documentary Film, Visual Anthropology, Ethnographic Film: relativisation and historical context
b) Styles of Ethnographic Documentary, the concept of Transcultural Cinema / Cross Cultural Filmmaking.
c) Cinematography and Etnography: the etno ficcion case
d) The practice and making of an ethnographic film: theme, ethics and reciprocity, methods, reflexivity.
e) The editing as a language (poetics and imagination)
f) Arquives, Biographies and diaries.
g) Filming the past: strategies.
h) Visual Methods in the social sciences: film analysis, photographic essays
i) Documentary and the ethnographic in Portugal: representation of rurality in the XX century 60´s.
Bibliography
Banks, Marcus and Morphy, Howard (ed) Rethinking Visual Anthropology, Yale University Press, 1997.
Barbash, Ilisa e Taylor, Lucien, Documentary Styles, From Fieldwork to filmming, Image in Cross-Cultural Filmmaking A handbook for
making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Ed Univ California Press, pag. 15-123, 1997.
Devereaux, L and Hillman, R. (eds.) Fields of Vision. Univ. of California Press. 1995.
MacDougall Transcultural Cinema, ed by Lucien Taylor, Princeton Univ Press, 1999.
Rabiger, Michael, Directing the Documentary, Focal Press, Boston. Pag 277-314. 1987.
Teaching method
Classes are divided into two kinds of classes:
1) In the first one, we do the theoretical presentation of a specific problem related to the historical context of the production in documentary and ethnographic films.
2) seminary classes in wich the students will develop a video essay ( 7 min) or a photographic essay.
Evaluation method