Syllabus
Business and storytelling – could be useful
Storytelling has become a top-of-mind issue in recent times, as technology has democratized the power to share our stories with the world. The fact that it continues to be a Continue Reading
Babakiueria
Here is a great example of satire of ethnography. Suggested by Isabella Normark. Pay attention to the word choices, the way the dialogues are written, the point of view, style Continue Reading
20 ethnographic and documentary films psychological anthropologists should be teaching.
20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching
Transformative storytelling – participatory video practices as a research method
“Participatory video implies several changes to the knowledge processes involved in the research and the power dynamics within them. First, as with other participatory approaches, it inverts the relationship between Continue Reading
Visual Ethnography – Statues Also Die, by Chris Marker & Alain Resnais (1953)
This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study Continue Reading
The birth of documentary – Nanook of the North (1922)
Here is an article that describes some of the concepts and ideas behind the documentary Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert Flaherty who spent 2 years among the Inuit Continue Reading
Anatomy of a Scene – NYT
Here is a link to a great page from the New York Times where famous directors deconstruct scenes from their films. Do go through ost of them and understand how Continue Reading
Ridleygrams
Ridley Scott’s storyboards – very interesting to look at and examine. See here: http://cinefex.com/blog/ridleygrams/
Levi-Strauss vs. Propp
The translation and publication of Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale took place in the late 1950s, about thirty years after its original publication in Russian. As a consequence, the Continue Reading
Photo essays for inspiration
Pease take a look at the photo essays that were prize winners for the Photography Museum of Humanity awards last year. Read the article about An Idyllic Picnic in Russia – “Bathed Continue Reading