Looking for a super cool class for Spring? Check out this new course being offered, ANTH 329-01: Ethnographic Film, on Wednesdays at 4 – 6:50 p.m. with instructor Jennifer Cool.

This course explores ethnographic film, broadly defined as a genre that addresses human cultural issue from an anthropological perspective. The class will examine ethnographic film as a way of knowing and study the practice within the broader histories of anthropology, cinema, and the 20th century.

The course is a selective survey aimed at developing critical insight into the ways cinema and cinematic ways of seeing have been employed in anthropology. We will be thinking, not only about the position of the films we view in the history of anthropology and film, but also about their relation to the goals of anthropology and documentary film-making.