COURSE CODE: 46511
COURSE TYPE: OPTIONAL
ΕCTS: 5
SEMESTER: 5TH | WINTER
COURSE LANGUAGE: GREEK
SYLLABUS
This course is an introduction to the ethnographic cinema and delves into various theoretical and methodological aspects concerning reality cinema, film studies, ethnography, visual anthropology, and media anthropology. Throughout the lectures, students engage with ethnographic films and documentaries such as Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922), Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929), La Chasse de Lion avec l'Arc (Jean Rouch, 1966) etc. The course is supported by audio-visual examples and is divided, indicatively, into the following sections:
1 Introduction
2. Cinema of the real: Historical approaches
3. Ethnographic film: Theoretical approaches
4. Visual anthropology: Epistemological approaches
5. Screening and analysis of the film Nanook of the North
6. Discussion and commentary on the film Nanook of the North
7. Screening and analysis of the film Man with a Movie Camera
8. Discussion and commentary on the film Man with a Movie Camera
9. Presentation and discussion of interim project
10. Screening and analysis of the film La Chasse de Lion avec l’Arc
11. Discussion and commentary on the film La Chasse de Lion avec l’Arc
12. Final project discussion
13. Course overview
ΒIBLIOGRAPHY
- Stefani, Eva. 2006. 10 Studies for the Documentary. Athens: Patakis.
- Piault, Marc Henri. 2008. Anthropology and Cinema: Transition to the Image, Passage through the Image. Athens: Metechmio.