SEMINAR IN VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY
EDUC 545.010DR. STANTON WORTHAM AND AMITANSHU DASSOFIA CHAPARRO, MATTHEW TARDITI AND VEENA VASUDEVAN
This seminar, taught by Stanton Wortham and Amit Das, considers film or video (among others) as a medium for presenting academic research to scholarly and non- scholarly audiences. Three camra members and GSE doctoral students, Sofia Chaparro (Ed Linguistics), Matthew Tarditi (Teaching and Learning) and Veena Vasudevan (Teaching and Learning) are TAing this Fall 2014 course.
THE GOAL IS FOR STUDENTS TO BE IMMERSED IN FILMIC (AND MULTIMODAL) REPRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH; TO ENGAGE WITH THE ETHICS, AESTHETICS AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF MEDIA MAKING IN SERVICE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL/ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; AND TO GAIN EXPERIENCE IN PRODUCING VIDEO AND MULTIMODAL RESEARCH PROJECTS. ALL STUDENTS WILL PRODUCE A FINAL DOCUMENTARY/VISUAL/ETHNOGRAPHIC PIECE IN SMALL GROUPS.
In this camra-affiliated course students will be deeply immersed in the traditions of visual anthropology, ethnography and filmmaking. They will grapple with theoretical questions of representation and mediation, consider ethical issues and apply their learning by producing their own films in small groups.
Building on these theoretical ideas, students will engage with the filmmaking process including:
(1) pre-production (e.g. storyboarding, planning, entry)
(2) production skills (e.g. the technical and logistical aspects of filming, storage and capturing images)
(3) post-production (e.g. editing, developing the narrative, promotion).
The class will encourage students to learn to watch and produce films as filmmakers and ethnographers. Intended as a year-long endeavor, the course seeks to build a community of scholarly media-makers in the social sciences.
The guiding questions for the course include:
(1) What are the affordances and challenges of using film (and other multimodal forms of representation) within social science research?
(2) What possibilities and problems arise from the deployment of media technologies as mechanisms for seeing/representing socio-cultural data (realities?)?
(3) How do we theorize through film and audio-visual methods?
This seminar, taught by Stanton Wortham and Amit Das, considers film or video (among others) as a medium for presenting academic research to scholarly and non- scholarly audiences. Three camra members and GSE doctoral students, Sofia Chaparro (Ed Linguistics), Matthew Tarditi (Teaching and Learning) and Veena Vasudevan (Teaching and Learning) are TAing this Fall 2014 course.
THE GOAL IS FOR STUDENTS TO BE IMMERSED IN FILMIC (AND MULTIMODAL) REPRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH; TO ENGAGE WITH THE ETHICS, AESTHETICS AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF MEDIA MAKING IN SERVICE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL/ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; AND TO GAIN EXPERIENCE IN PRODUCING VIDEO AND MULTIMODAL RESEARCH PROJECTS. ALL STUDENTS WILL PRODUCE A FINAL DOCUMENTARY/VISUAL/ETHNOGRAPHIC PIECE IN SMALL GROUPS.
In this camra-affiliated course students will be deeply immersed in the traditions of visual anthropology, ethnography and filmmaking. They will grapple with theoretical questions of representation and mediation, consider ethical issues and apply their learning by producing their own films in small groups.
Building on these theoretical ideas, students will engage with the filmmaking process including:
(1) pre-production (e.g. storyboarding, planning, entry)
(2) production skills (e.g. the technical and logistical aspects of filming, storage and capturing images)
(3) post-production (e.g. editing, developing the narrative, promotion).
The class will encourage students to learn to watch and produce films as filmmakers and ethnographers. Intended as a year-long endeavor, the course seeks to build a community of scholarly media-makers in the social sciences.
The guiding questions for the course include:
(1) What are the affordances and challenges of using film (and other multimodal forms of representation) within social science research?
(2) What possibilities and problems arise from the deployment of media technologies as mechanisms for seeing/representing socio-cultural data (realities?)?
(3) How do we theorize through film and audio-visual methods?
