AAAS 88.17 Filmmaking and Visual Culture
In this course we both learn to make films and to examine theories of visual art, sound, film, and digital media. We will learn how to think about and make sounds and images in historically and ethnographically rich ways. In the process we examine notions of power, difference, history, culture, race, class, gender. Twentieth-century politics were intimately linked to the rapid development of radio, television, film, video, and digital media. These media have creatively engaged with local cultural practices around the world in reshaping the nature of artistic expression, national, gendered, and racial difference, and political power. We examine notions of visuality from the perspective of African and African diasporic political configurations and aesthetic responses. This course explores the politics and pragmatics of art, photography, and film in order to delineate visual, sonic, and embodied ways of presenting and experiencing the world particularly in relation to race and gender.
Instructor
Shipley
Cross Listed Courses
ANTH 50.21