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Hi everyone,
Please make sure you are signed up for 2 Questions and 4 Responses over the course of the class--i.e. 1 Question and 2 Responses in UNIT I and 1 Question and 2 Responses in UNIT II.
You can choose which weeks you want to sign up for, although this will be on a first-come-first-served basis. I have configured the blog to allow you to edit this post, so go to "new post" and use the "edit" function on this post in order to add your name. Make sure your name is in Red wherever you sign up.

UNIT I:

Monday June 7
Course Overview and Introduction
WEEK 1 – PEOPLE WITH WRITING / PEOPLE WITHOUT WRITING
In-class Screening: L’Enfant Sauvage (Francois Truffaut, 1970; 83 mins)
NO QUESTION OR RESPONDENTS THIS WEEK

Wednesday June 9
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “A Writing Lesson,” Tristes Tropiques, 286-297.
Jacques Derrida, “The Violence of the Letter: From Rousseau to Lévi-Strauss,” Of Grammatology, 101-141.
Recommended reading: Kaja Silverman, “From Sign to Subject: A Short History,” The Subject of Semiotics, 3-53.
QUESTION: DANIELA
RESPONDENTS: JEN, CHRIS

Assignment: Meet together and watch Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922; 79 mins) BEFORE Monday June 14.

WEEK 2 – OUR TIME / THEIR TIME
Monday June 14
Johannes Fabian, “Time and the Emerging Other,” “Time and Writing about the Other,” Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object, 1-35; 71-104. (Excerpts TBA)
QUESTION: MAUREEN
RESPONDENTS: LAURA, FATIMA (?)

Wednesday June 16
In-class Screening: Excerpts from Anselmo and the Women (Chick Strand, 1986; 35 mins) and Reassemblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982; 40 mins)
Fatimah Tobing Rony, “Introduction: The Third Eye,” The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle, 1-13.
George Marcus & Dick Cushman, “Ethnographies as Texts,” Annual Review of Anthropology 11 (1982): 25-51.
QUESTION: CHRIS
RESPONDENTS: ERIN, DANIELA

Assignment: Meet together and watch King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933; 100 mins) BEFORE Monday June 21.

WEEK 3 – HUMAN / ANIMAL
Monday June 21 ***RESPONSE PAPER 1 DUE***
In-class Screening: The Couple in the Cage (Paula Heredia, 1997; 30 mins)
John Berger, “Why Look At Animals,” About Looking, 3-28.
Michel Foucault, “Lecture 11,” Society Must Be Defended, 239-264 ONLY (not the chapter summary); skim 239-253 and focus on pp. 253-264.
QUESTION: JEN
RESPONDENTS: LAURA, FATIMA (?)

Wednesday June 23
In-class Screening: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968; excerpt—“The Dawn of Man”)
Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal. (Selections TBA)
Martin Heidegger, “The Animal Is Poor In World” (Excerpt), Animal Philosophy, ed. Matthew Calarco and Peter Atterton, 17.
QUESTION: LAURA
RESPONDENTS: MAUREEN, ERIN

WEEK 4 – ENGINEER / BRICOLEUR
Monday June 28
In-class Screening: The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda, 2000; 82 mins)
Claude Levi-Strauss, “The Science of the Concrete,” The Savage Mind, 1-34.
Karl Marx, “The Fetishism of the Commodity and the Secret Thereof,” Capital Vol. 1, 163-177.
QUESTION: DANIELA
RESPONDENTS: CHRIS, MAUREEN

Wednesday June 30
Elizabeth Povinelli, “Introduction,” and “Legal Entanglements: Aboriginal Action and Identity,” Labor’s Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action, 1-20; 23-63.
QUESTION: ERIN
RESPONDENTS: JEN, FATIMA (?)

UNIT II:

Assignment: Meet together and watch Through Navajo Eyes (selected films) BEFORE Monday July 5.

WEEK 5 – AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: THE NAVAJO PROJECT AND INDIGENOUS VIDEO
Monday July 5 NO CLASS TODAY – Buildings Closed
Sol Worth and John Adair, Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. (Selections TBA)
Take-Home Assignment: Blog a response to the Through Navajo Eyes project, addressing both the reading and the films. Your response can be on any topic, but should contain at least one close reading of the text and the film.
NO QUESTIONS OR RESPONDENTS THIS WEEK

Wednesday July 7
Screening: The Spirit of TV (Vincent Carelli, 1990; 18 mins)
Monica Frota, “Taking Aim: The Video Technology of Cultural Resistance,” Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, 258-282.
Rachel Moore, “Marketing Alterity,” Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R, Ed. Lucien Taylor, 126-139.
QUESTION: CHRIS
RESPONDENTS: JEN, DANIELA

Assignment: Meet together and watch Desire (Julie Gustafson, 2005; 84 mins) and Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004; 85 mins) BEFORE Monday July 12.

WEEK 6 – INCITEMENT / RESISTANCE: CHILD MEDIA ADVOCACY
Monday July 12 ***RESPONSE PAPER 2 DUE***
Michel Foucault, “The Incitement to Discourse,” History Of Sexuality Vol. 1, 17-35.
Mary Celeste Kearney, “Developing the Girl’s Gaze: Female Youth and Film Production,” Girls Make Media, 199-212.
Rey Chow, “Introduction: From Biopower to Ethnic Difference” “The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1-50.
Look at: Desire Website.
QUESTION: JEN
RESPONDENTS: MAUREEN, FATIMA (?)

Wednesday July 14
Susan Herr and Dennis Sykes, “News Advisory: Listen to the Children,” Children and the Media, 135-139.
John. L and Jean Comaroff, Ethnicity Inc. (Selections TBA)
Rey Chow, “Keeping them in Their Place: Coercive Mimeticism and Cross-Ethnic Representation,” The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 95-127. (Excerpt TBA)
Look at: Kids with Cameras Website.
QUESTION: MAUREEN
RESPONDENTS: ERIN, DANIELA

WEEK 7 – ZOOGRAPHIES: COLLABORATIONS WITH ANIMALS
Monday July 19
Screening: Electrocuting an Elephant (Thomas Edison, 1903; 1 min)
Alphabet Soup (William Wegman, 1995; 30 mins)
Animal Cam series TBA (Sam Easterson, 1998-present)
((((( ))))) (Leslie Thornton, 2009; 9 mins)
Beatriz da Costa, “Reaching the Limit: When Art Becomes Science,” Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, ed. Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, 365-386.
Nicole Shukin, Animal Capital (Selections TBA)
QUESTION: LAURA
RESPONDENTS: CHRIS, JEN

Wednesday July 21
Nicole Shukin, Animal Capital contd. (Selections TBA)
QUESTION: FATIMA (?)
RESPONDENTS: MAUREEN, ERIN

Assignment: Meet together and watch Trouble the Water (Carl Deal & Tia Lessin, 2008) BEFORE Monday July 26

WEEK 8 – TELEVISING VULNERABILITY: SURVIVOR VIDEO IN DOCUMENTARY FILM AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA
Monday July 26
In-class Screening: Excerpts from Hurricane Katrina CNN/MSNBC Broadcast
and Twister (Jan de Bont, 1996)
Mary Ann Doane, “Information, Crisis, Catastrophe,” Logics of Television, ed. Patricia Mellencamp, 222-239.
QUESTION: ERIN
RESPONDENTS: LAURA, DANIELA

Wednesday July 28
Henry A. Giroux, “Reading Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class, and the Biopolitics of Disposability,” College Literature 33.3 (2006): 171-196.
Didier Fassin, “Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life,” Public Culture 19:3 (2007): 499-520.
QUESTION: FATIMA (?)
RESPONDENTS: LAURA, CHRIS

***RESPONSE PAPER 3 (OR SEMINAR PAPER) DUE DATE TBA***