Ethnography in Transit Colloquium: "Dreams of Total Knowledge: Film and the Ethnographic Imagination"

Facilitated by Oliver Gaycken (English and Comparative Literature) and Elizabeth Papazian (School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Readings:

Rebecca Lemov, “Towards a Data Base of Dreams: Assemblin an Archive of Elusive Materials c. 1947-61” History Workshop Journal Issue 67 (2009) 45-68.

("Ciné-Transe" 1978) http://der.org/jean-rouch/content/index.php?id=crack_cine

Dziga Vertov: "The Cine-Eyes: A Revolution," originally from LEF 1923 no.3, English trans. from THE FILM FACTORY, ed. Richard Taylor and Ian Christie (1994.)

David MacDougall, "Whose Story is it Anyway?" (1991)

Video Reserves: Jean Rouch, CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (1961).

For addtional events in this series, see http://www.english.umd.edu/ethnography