Films & videos on media activism & more
This is a selection of films and videos on mediated activism, anthropological perspectives on media and culture, and globalization and (de)colonization in …
The Space-Time of Infrastructure #Roadsides
“Lena, you can turn on the camera now.” The view of the space station changes from monitor to film image. The opening …
The model for teaching at TDTU – in collaboration with Đỗ Thị Xuân Hương and Võ Nguyễn Thiện Phúc
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang …
Gespaltene Kollektive. Identität und ihr Missbehagen in Samirs Baghdad In My Shadow
Eine progressive «Identitätspolitik”, die im Namen des Widerstandes gegen nationalistische Beschränkungen betrieben wird, muss verschiedene, disparate “kollektive Identitäten” für ein gemeinsames Ziel…
Tut um Gottes Willen etwas Tapferes. Plädoyer für ein Reformations-Rashomon
Verfilmungen von geschichtlichen Ereignissen sagen etwas darüber aus, wie „Geschichte“ gedacht wird. Wird sie als eindeutige und lineare Entwicklung gedacht, von wichtigen …
Paramount Pictures Presents: Berufseinstieg in der Medienbranche
Die Medienbranche bietet für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen interessante Jobs. Wie es ist, als Berufseinsteigerin in einem großen Unternehmen wie Paramount zu arbeiten, erzählte mir …
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 …
Mit Abstand. Andreas Hoesslis Film über die Revolutionen im Iran und in Polen
1979 im Iran und 1980 in Polen bedrohen zwei Revolutionen die alten Mächte – im Iran stürzt der Shah, in Polen aber …
Starke Frauen, prekäre Lebenswelten: Alexander Askoldows „Die Kommissarin“ neu gesehen
Der Film „Die Kommissarin“ (1967) war zwanzig Jahre lang verboten. Die Thematisierung jüdischen Lebens und Sterbens sowie die unorthodoxe Darstellung der Bürgerkriegszeit …
Der Kopf unter dem Hut. Helke Sanders kluger Film „Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit“
Wenn über die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf öffentlich gesprochen wird, geht vor allem darum, wie Frauen trotz Kinder Karriere machen können. …
Sarah Mitchell takes the page 99 test
For the sake of full disclosure, I’m going to start my reflection on my Page 99 with a quick nod to the …
Review: Us
**Republished with permission from Tossed Observations Inc.** by Jonathan Craig Suspenseful, cinematically impressive, and majestically scored, Jordan Peele’s latest feature-length effort is, …
Pantomime Terror
This book is about storytelling and music video – well, also politics and terror, performance and television. HUTNYK_PANTOMIME TERROR The book tunes …
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ – Hutnyk This chapter addresses the question of how, today, to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital — of …
Re-framing Crime, Violence, and Poverty: new cinematic narratives of Black criminality in Imperial Dreams
Introduction: reframings Redmond (2017) has noted that, in order to garner support for the punitive policies of the War on Drugs, Americans …
Seeing Finance in 360° – This Anthro Life
Hey there TAL listeners! Aneil has been working on a project centered on capturing the experience of working in finance with a fellow …
Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics with Hamilton Morris – This Anthro Life
When TAL first interviewed Hamilton Morris, it was shortly after he and his production team had finished season 1 of Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia. …
Cancer Culture avant la lettre by Vincent Bruyère
Figure 1. Two views of Clara Jacobi (Netherlands, 1689). U.S. National Library of Medicinehttps://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101392944-img In the class I teach on illness narratives, …
The Single Shot: contribute a still or moving image from the field
Author: Dr. Natasha Fijn is based at the ANU Mongolia Institute. Her research focuses on multispecies ethnography and observational filmmaking. Ethnographic film and photography includes detailed obse…
Re-viewing The Truman Show
By Peter Versteeg. “We accept the world with which we are presented” is probably the best summary of The Truman Show, a …
Public Anthropology and negotiating what that means on TV.
A few years ago, I wrote a piece on making archaeology popular in which I recounted the ways in which archaeology became part of …
Natasha Raheja
Natasha Raheja’s short film Cast in India calls attention to the connection between New York’s iconic manhole covers and the workers in …
The representation of Africa in Hollywood movie Black Panther.
By Rhoda Woets Almost every month, I join a small group of anthropologists from the VU to go to the movies. Last …