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Anthropology Goes to the Movies - 1:70:367 (3 CREDITS) Asynchronous Online - New lessons start Wednesdays Office hours: Fri 1-5:000pm or by appointment

Dr. Pilar K. Rau – [email protected] GoogleHangouts (scarletmail) pkr28 GroupMe (Skype) (add me via Campus Connect tab or link in Canvas)

Short Description - This course explores the role of film in ethnographic representation and ethnographic representation in popular film. It looks at the relationship of anthropology to the construction of popular film and of popular film to the construction of culture

Course Description – Since the advent of film in the late 19th century, the cutting-edge new discipline of anthropology provided exciting themes –from “cavemen” and “the missing link” to extra-terrestrials (who resemble Native Americans) that have been enormously popular with audiences ever since. The persistence of Hollywood staples such as mummies, cannibalistic natives, exotic demons, and , also reflect the ever-changing history of anthropology from the turn-of- the century until present. These figures (and the ways they change over time) also reflect the political-economic context of colonialism, imperialism, scientific theories and discoveries, as well as debates on race and gender of the historical moments in which they emerged and are redeployed. In addition to reflecting social anxieties, imaging exotic other worlds has also been a liberatory space in which to dream of alternative futures for humanity (as is Anthropology, some would argue). Anthropologists, in addition to being characters in adventure and horror movies, are also humans from a specific cultural context. Malinowski, the father of modern field work, for example, read adventure novels in the field. Young Jane Goodall was a Tarzan fan. Sigmund Freud, who drew on Morgan’s theories and influenced subsequent anthropologists, had nightmares about all the pulp fiction he read. We will also consider how pop culture of different eras interacted with genres of ethnographic writing. In short, this course explores the role of film in ethnographic representation and ethnographic representation in popular film. It looks at the relationship of anthropology to the construction of popular film and of popular film to the construction of culture

DEPARTMENT LEARNING GOALS http://anthro.rutgers.edu/undergrad-program/department-learning-goals CA1) Gain knowledge that will allow them to identify, explain, and historically contextualize the primary objectives, fundamental concepts, modes of analysis, and central questions in their major field and demonstrate proficiency in their use of this knowledge CA2) Demonstrate proficiency in the use of critical thinking skills CA3) Demonstrate proficiency using current methods in their major fields, including library research skills CA4) Express themselves knowledgably and proficiently in writing about central issues in their major field CA5) Express themselves knowledgably and proficiently in speaking about central issues in their major field

COURSE SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOME GOALS 1) Explore the historical effects and circulation of anthropological and archaeological theory and research in popular culture and the effects of historical context (including popular culture) on the anthropological imagination [CA1] 2) Critically analyze the politics of representation of cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, and class difference [CA2] 3) Demonstrate an historical understanding of changes in anthropological theory [CA1] 4) Critically analyze the concepts of race and gender as social constructions with powerful effects, rather than biological fact [CA1,2] 5) Develop and demonstrate skills in critical theoretical analysis, conduct independent research, and communicate ideas effectively both orally and in writing. [CA3,4,5]

CANVAS & EMAIL- I will contact you about class via Canvas Inbox (it will not email you unless you set it up to do so). You can also email me, use GroupMe to Skype, or use GoogleHangouts to call, text, or video chat from your Scarletmail. Contact the Office of Information Technology (OIT) Help Desk for help with Canvas. https://it.rutgers.edu/help-support

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ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING STRUCTURE (see Canvas for grading rubrics) • Response/discussion (60% total) this grade is comprised of 2 parts. Top 10 scores (60% total)[CA5] o Film/Reading response – 3% *10 = 30 – respond to weekly readings in Discussions the Sunday *before* Wednesday's class. This is a more formal writing assignment than the “discussion.” Responses should directly engage with and analyze the films in terms of the readings. You might think of these as notes for your paper ~250 words o Class discussion 3% *10 = 20. [CA5] thoughtfully (and creatively) engage with your classmates’ Reading Response. Reply to 2+ mates and all who replied to you. You are free to use writing, audio, video, etc. Due "in class" Wednesday (11:59pm) • Introduction (5% total) participate in the week 1 activities o Personal Bio (2.5%) o Study Group intro (2.5%) • Lead Discussion (5% ) – your Study group will co-hosts and help the professor moderate 2 forum discussions. Feel free to kick off the discussion with an interesting media artifact, video clip, YouTube rant, or any other creative, attention- grabbing contribution. Meet with your group via Zoom, Skype, Gooogle Hangouts, WeChat etc. [CA1,3,5] • Papers (30% total) [CA1,2,4] Upload to Canvas > Assignments o Paper 1 (10%) - Develop an original thesis on the films, lectures, and readings of Part I of the course. 5-7pp. o Paper 1 (10%) - Develop an original thesis on the films, lectures, and readings of Part II of the course. 5-7pp. o Final Paper (10%) [CA1,2,3,4] On the topic of your choice from part III. 8pp Due 5/9 11:59pm • Extra credit (2%) Meet with Dr. Rau one-on-one – attend office hours and chat about a topic of your choice [CA5]

COURSE READINGS & FILMS All required readings and films are available for download via Canvas or the library. We will screen film clips and films to analyze each class. I will also provide you with additional (optional viewing) examples of film genres and tropes. I encourage you to seek examples of your own via Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Kanopy, Swank, etc. Older works that are out of copywrite may be available on the Internet Archive or YouTube.

While they are not required, you may wish to read the following public domain ebooks, as many authors reference these historical figures and texts and many films draw on their ideas. I will also provide relevant public domain ebooks each week for context (also optional).

**Note the year in which they were published! –Anthropological theory has changed *a lot* in the past century; however, Hollywood films are often inspired by ideas from the 1890s) from both anthropology and fiction.**

Blackwell, Antoinette, 1875. The Sexes Throughout Nature. Darwin, C. 1871. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex,.I www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34967 --1859. Origin of Species Frazer, J. 1894. The Golden Bough https://archive.org/details/goldenboughstudy01fraz Freud, S. 1913. Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages & Neurotics https://archive.org/details/totemtaboosomepo00freu Morgan. L.H. 1877. Ancient Society: Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization https://archive.org/details/ancientsocietyor00morgrich Malinowski, B. Sex & Repression in Savage Society https://archive.org/details/sexrepressionins00mali Spencer, H. 1897. The of Society. https://archive.org/details/principlesbiolo11spengoog Tylor. E. B. 1871. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom vol I. https://archive.org/details/primitivecultur12tylogoog Vol. II https://archive.org/details/primitivecultur13tylogoog

2 1. IMPERIALIST IMAGINARIES: ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN EARLY POPULAR CINEMA Week 1 - Imperialist Imaginaries (Due Wed 1/20) Read: Introduction: Imperialist Imaginaries (Canvas > Module 1) Brantlinger, P. 1985. Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent. Critical Inquiry. 12. 166-201 Shohat, E. and Stam, R. 1994. The Imperial Imaginary. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media.

Recommended (optional) Graham, J. 2012. Goodall, Jane. Tarzan Should Have Married Me. The Big Issue. Shohat, E. and Stam, R. 1994. Introduction: Unthinking Eurocentrism. Unthinking Eurocentrism. Thompson, C.1995. Anthropology's Conrad: Malinowski in the Tropics and What He Read. Journal of Pacific History.30:1. 53-75 Lewis, S. 2012. Romancing the Zulu: H. Rider Haggard, Nada the Lily, and Salvage Ethnography. English in Africa, 39:2. 69–84,5.

Analyze: • (clip) Melies, George. (1898). The Astronomer’s Dream • (clip) Melies, George. (1902). Voyage to the moon (parody of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells-type voyages) • (clip) Sidney, Scott. (1918 ). Tarzan

Recommended • (trailer) Kloos, Reinhard. (2013). Tarzan (or any other Tarzan) • (clip) Stevenon, Robert. (1937). King Solomon’s Mines. 80min • (clip) Bennett, Compton (1950). King Solomon’s Mines. 103min • (clip) Thompson, J. Lee. (1985). King Solomon’s Mines. 100min

Adventure Literature (optional): Burroughs, Edgar Rice. 1912. Tarzan of the Apes. (all 25 sequels are available online as free audiobooks and/or ebooks) Haggard, H. Rider. 1885. King Solomon’s Mines. Verne, Jules, Wells, H. G., etc.

*Graded* • Personal Bio - (In Module 1 > Class Bios (*Graded* discussion) • Study Group discussion assignment (In Module 1 > Study Group (*Graded* discussion) • 1/20 – Film reaction. (optional, this could be one of the two dropped, grades or you could get a head start if you are excited)

3 Week 2 – Anthropology and the Invention of Film (Due Wed 1/27) Read: Early Cinema, Anthropology, and Visual Culture (Canvas > Module 2) Corbey, R. 1993. Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930. Cultural Anthropologist. 8:3: 338-64 Cariou, W. 2016. The Exhibited Body: The Nineteenth-Century Human Zoo. Victorian Review. 42:1 26–28

Nanookmania (Canvas > Module 2) (ch1) Huhndorf, S. 2001. Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination Rony, F. T. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography. The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic spectacle. pp. 99-126

Recommended (optional) Dean, B. 2008. Imperial Primitive Masculinity in Fiction. Victorian Literature and Culture. 36:1.205-19 Flaherty, R. 1922. "How I Filmed Nanook of the North," World's Work. www.documentary.org/feature/how-i-filmed-nanook-north Griffiths, A. 2002. Chapter 1: Life Groups & the Modern Museum Spectator. Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and turn-of-the-century visual culture. New York: Columbia. (3-45) --. Chapter 2: Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World’s Fair. Wondrous Difference. (46-85) Manley, B. 2011. Moving Pictures: History of Early Cinema.” Discovery Guides www.csa.com/discoveryguides/film/review.pdf Maslish, B. 1993. Triptych: Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, Rider Haggard's She, and Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 35:3 726-745 Ormos, I. 2009. Cairo Street at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893” L’Orientalisme architectural entre imaginaires et savoirs, Paris: Picard. 195-214.

Analyze: Media: • Edison, Thomas. (1896). Little Egypt. 1min • (clip) Flaherty, Robert. (1922). Nanook of the North: A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic 79min • Roach, Hal, McGowan. The Kid from Borneo. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer (1933) 18min

Recommended (optional): • Curtis, Edward. (1914). Land of the Headhunters. • Other Early films with exotic or expansion themes • Ota and Martin Johnson Adventure films • Parezo F. 2007. Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Nebraska https://bit.ly/3nmxeYU • Prentices, Claire. The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century (Also Kindle Unlimited or Audible audiobook or https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/355231101/The-Lost-Tribe-of-Coney-Island- Headhunters-Luna-Park-and-the-Man-Who-Pulled-Off-the-Spectacle-of-the-Century) *Graded* • Sunday 1/24 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 1/24 -Wednesday 1/27: Class Discussion

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Charles Knight. 1920. Le Moustier Neanderthals, in the American Museum of Natural History

Week 3 - Origins of the “” (Due Wed 2/3) Read: Evolution, Archaeology, and Victorian Ethnology (~1859) (Canvas > Module 3)

Picturing Prehistory: Early Images of Cavemen (Canvas > Module 3) Berman, J. 1999. Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic: Modern Reconstructions of the Cave Man. American Anthrop. 101:2. 288-304 Mann, A. 2003. Imagining prehistory: Pictorial reconstructions of the way we were. American Anthropologist. 105:1. 139-43 Murray, T. 2009. Illustrating 'savagery': Sir John Lubbock and Ernest Griset. Antiquity. 83:320.

Recommended (optional) (selection)Freeman, M. 2004. Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. Yale. Lorimer, D. 2009. From Natural Science to Social Science: Language of Race Relations in Late Victorian & Edwardian Discourse. Lineages of Empire. Oxford. (selection) Stocking, G. W. 1987. Victorian anthropology. New York: Collier Macmillan. Ruddick, N. 2009. The Fiction of Hominization.The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Auel Analyze:

Silent Era Cavemen (shorts) • Chaplain, Charlie. (1917) His Prehistoric Past 12min • (clip) Griffith, D. W (1912) Man’s Genesis. • (clip) Griffith, D. W. (1913) Brute Force (Primitive Man) • (clip) Keaton, Buster. (1923) Three Ages • O’Brian, Willis. (1917) The Dinosaur and the Missing link: a Prehistoric Tragedy (6min)

Unfrozen Cavemen • Mayfield, Les. (1992) Encino Man (trailer) • Shepisi, Fred. (1984) Iceman. 111min • Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Saturday Night Live. Season 21, Episode16 (1996) • Scooby’s Night with a Frozen Fright. Season 2, Episode 3. (1970) 21 min

Cavemen, Race, and Evolution • Chaffey, Don. (1966) 1 million years B.C. 91min

Recommended (optional): • Emmerich, Roland. (2008) 10,000 BC 109min • Roach, Hal. (1940) 1 Million B.C. 80min • Roger Corman. (1958) Teenage Caveman. 65min

Early Anthropology (optional - analyze as products of their historical context) Darwin, C. 1871. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Morgan, L. H. 1877. Ancient Society: The Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization Spencer, H. 1866. The Principles of Biology (coins “Survival of the Fittest”) and 1897. The Evolution of Society

Literature Burroughs, Edgar Rice. 1937. The Resurrection of Jimber Jaw. (one of the first unfrozen cavemen) *Graded* • Sunday 1/31 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 1/31 - Wednesday 2/3: Class Discussion

5 Week 4 - Race, Gender, and the Myth of Progress (Due Wed 2/10) Read: Postwar Paleolithic Peoples: The Evolution of the Idea of “Progress” (Canvas > Module 4) DePaolo, C. 2000. Wells, Golding, Auel: Representing the Neanderthal. Studies 27:3 Ruddick, N. 2009. Nature & Human Nature. ---.The Race of the Human Race. The Fire in the Stone Stocking, G. 1982. The Dark-Skinned Savage: Image of Primitive Man in Evolutionary Anthro

Gender and the Caveman (and Cavewoman) (Canvas > Module 4) Fee, Elizabeth. 1973. Sexual Politics of Victorian Social Anthropology. Feminist Studies 1:3/4 23-39 Jann, R. 1994. Darwin and the Anthropologists: Sexual Selection and Its Discontents Victorian Studies 37:2 Murphy, Julia. 2002. A Novel Prehistory. Digging Holes in Popular Culture: Archaeology & Sci Fi. Ruddick, N. 2007. Courtship w/a Club: Wife-Capture in Prehistoric Fiction 1865-1914 Yearbook of English Studies 37:2

Recommended (optional): Bernstein, S. 1994. Dirty Reading: Sensation Fiction, Women, and Primitivism. Criticism 36:2. 213-241 Klossner, M. 2006.Prehistoric Humans in Film and TV. 1905-2004 Ruddick, N. 2009. Sex and Gender. The Fire in the Stone (125-151) Troulloit, M. Anthropology and the Savage Slot. Analyze: • Annand, Jean-Jacques. (1989) for Fire. • (clip) De Micco, Kirk. (2013).The Croods.

Recommended (optional): • (clip) Reine, Roel. (2009) Lost tribe. • Chapman, Michael. (1986) The Clan of the Cave Bear. 98min

(optional) Literature: Burroughs, Edgar Rice. 1913. The Cave Girl Auel, Jean. (1980) Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth Children series, also a film 1986 Michael Chapman) TBA Wells, Golding Rosney, J. H. [1911]. Quest for Fire Translated to English 1967

*Graded* • Sunday 2/7 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 2/7 - Wednesday 2/10: Class Discussion

Week 5 (Due Wed 2/17) *Graded PAPER 1 Due : Imperial Imaginaries: Anthropology, Archaeology, and Early Cinema Canvas > Assignments > Paper 1 for grading rubric and upload Screen additional films and read additional articles for paper. Check out the recommended features

6 2. PRIMAL HORDES AND NOBLE SAVAGES Week 6 - Cannibal Films (Due Wed 2/24) Read: Cannibals, Incest, Primal Hordes (Canvas > Module 5) (historical texts mentioned in lecture are optional) Freud, S. 1913. Totem and Taboo -- 1922. The group and the primal horde. www.bartleby.com/290/ Tylor, E. B. 1871. Primitive Culture

The Jungle (Canvas > Module 5) Granger, J. 2011. : The Savage Cinema of . FAB Press Jauregui, C. 2004. Eat it alive and swallow it whole: Resavoring Cannibal: Holocaust as a Mockumentary. Invisible Culture. 7 Lavrencic, D. 2013. The Disturbing Art of Sight and Sound in Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. Kino. 4:1. Petely, J. 2005. Chapter 14: Cannibal Holocaust and the Pornography of Death. The Spectacle of the Real. Rose, S. 2011. Keep filming! Kill more people! The Guardian. Sep 15

Group 1: Ethnographic accounts of cannibalism Conklin, B. 1995. Thus Are Our Bodies Thus Was Our Custom. Am Ethnologist 22:1. 75-101 McCallum, C. 1999. Consuming Pity. Cultural Anthropo 14:4. 443-71 Lindenbaum, S. 2008. Understanding Kuru. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. 363:1510. 3715-20

Group 2: Context: Anthropology & Warfare: Vietnam and a Feud over Anthro’s Best-seller Examine the images of the Yanomamö (), anthropologists, human violence, and the mining industry Booth, W. 1989. Warfare over Yanomamö Indians. Science. 243:4895 Borofsky, R. 2005. The controversy and the broader issues at stake. Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy UC. Sahlins, M. Review Darkness in El Dorado

Recommended: Chagnon, N. 1968. Yanomamö The Fierce People. Sponsel, L. 1998. Yanomami: An Arena of Conflict and Aggression in the Amazon. Aggressive Behavior. 24. 97-112 (selection) Slater, J. 2006. Eaten Alive!: Italian Cannibal and Movies. Plexus Publishing. Tierny, P. 2000. Savage Encounters. www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tierney-dorado.html AAA Rescinds Acceptance of the El Dorado Report - www.aaanet.org/stmts/05ref_eldorado.htm

Group 3: The Politics of Cannibal Stories Conklin, B. 1997. Consuming Images: Representations of Cannibalism on the Amazonian Frontier. Anthrop Quarterly 70:2. 68-78 Kidd, J. 1988. Scholarly Excess and Journalistic Restraint in the Popular Treatment of Cannibalism. Social Studies of Sci. 18:4. 749-54 Lindenbaum, Shirley. 2004. Thinking about Cannibalism. Annual Review of Anthropology.23. 475-498

Recommended: King, R. 2000. The (Mis)uses of Cannibalism in Contemporary Cultural Critique Diacritics. 30:1.106-123 Kuper, A. 2010. The Original Sin of Anthropology. Paideuma, 56. 123-44 Taussig, M. 1987. Culture of Terror, Space of Death.

Analyze: • View: Roth, Eli. (2015) Green Inferno 100 min • (clip) Deodato, Ruggero. (1980) Cannibal Holocaust

Ethnographic Film (compare) • Asch, Timothy and Chagnon, Napoleon.(1974) Children’s Magical Death. 7min • Padilha, José. (2010). Secrets of the Tribe. 98 min

Additional examples (optional) • (clip) Climati, Antonio (1988) The Green Inferno (aka Cannibal Holocaust II) • (trailer) Lezi, Umberto. (1972) Sacrifice. (Aka Man from Deep River aka Deep River Savages) • (clip) Boorman, John. (1985) Emerald Forrest • (trailer). (1977) Jungle Holocaust (Last Cannibal World) • (trailer) D'Amato, Joe.(1977) Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals • (clip) (1980) . Etc. *Graded* • Sunday 2/21 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 2/21 - Wednesday 2/24: Class Discussion

7 Week 7 - Noble Savages (Due Wed 3/3) Read: The San (The Bushmen) (Canvas > Module 7) Garland, E. and Gordon, R. 1999. Authentic (In)Authentic: Bushman Anthro‐Tourism . VA. 67-87. Tomaselli, K. 1999. Psychospiritual ecoscience: Ju/'hoansi & Cultural Tourism . VAR, 12:2-3. 185-95 Recent Newspaper articles on “Uncontacted Tribes”

Reccommended Apter, A. 1999. Africa, Empire, and Anthropology: A Philological Exploration of Anthropology's Heart of Darkness. Annual Rev Anthropology. 28. 577-98 Analyze: • Uys, Jamie. (1980) The Gods Must Be Crazy. 109min • (Compare to) Marshall, John (1980) N!ai: the story of a !Kung woman *Graded* • Sunday 2/28 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 2/28 - Wednesday 3/3: Class Discussion

Week 8 - Savage and Vanishing Indians (Due Wed 3/10) Read: Noble warrior, bloodthirsty savage, vanishing Indian (Canvas > Module 8) Huhndorf, S. 2001. Intro Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination Raheja, M. 2013. Ch 1,3. Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty and Representations of

Romanticism and Salvage Anthropology (Canvas > Module 8) Rosaldo, R. 1989. Imperialist Nostalgia. Representations. 26. 107-122 Stocking, G. 1989. The Ethnographic Sensibility of the 1920s. Romantic motives essays on anthropological sensibility. Wisconsin

Recommended (optional): Gruber, J. 1970. Ethnographic Salvage and the Shaping of Anthropology. American Anthropologist, 72:6 1289–99

(recommended) The Politics of Anthropological Representation (Canvas > Module 8) Gough, K. 1968. New Proposals for Anthropologists or Anthropology and Imperialism. Pels, P. 1997. The Anthropology of Colonialism. Annual Review of Anthropology. Said, E. 1989. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors. Critical Inquiry, 15:2. 205-225 Stocking, G. W. 1991. Colonial situations: Essays on the contextualization of ethnographic knowledge. Wisconsin Analyze: • Griffith, D. W. (1913) The Battle at Elderbush Gulch. • Keep America Beautiful PSA • (1990) • (clip) Diamond, Neil. (2009) 89min

Recommended • (clip) Mann, Michael. (1922). The Last of the Mohicans. • (clip) Penn, Arthur. (1970) Little Big Man 139min • The Josey Wales. (1976) • Scooby-Doo S1:E5. "Decoy for a Dognapper" (Geronimo’s Ghost) *Graded* • Sunday 3/7 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 3/7 - Wednesday 3/10: Class Discussion

Spring break 3/15-3/21 Week 9 (Due Wed 3/24) *Graded* PAPER 2 Primal Hordes and Noble Savages .Canvas > Assignments > Paper 2 for grading rubric and upload

8 3. CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

Week10 - Archaeologists and Evil (Due Wed 3/31) Read: Group 1: Exotic Objects and Archaeologists (Canvas > Module 10) Hall, M. 2004. Romancing the Stones: Archaeology in Popular Cinema. European Journal of Archaeology. 7:2. 159–76 Membury, S 2002. The Celluloid Archaeologist:An X-rated Exposé. Digging Holes in Popular Culture 8-18 Murray, T. 1993. Archaeology and the Threat of the past: Sir Henry Rider Haggard. World Archaeology. 25:2. 175-186 Russell, M. 2002. No more heroes: The Dangerous World of the Pop Culture Archaeologist . Digging Holes in Pop Culture Shohat, E. 1990. Gender in Hollywood's Orient . Middle East Report. 162. Jan. - Feb. 40-42

Group 2: Art, Artifact, Fetish, Commodity (Canvas > Module 10) Clifford, J. 1988. On Collecting Art and Culture. The Predicament of Culture. Foster, H. 1993. Art of fetishism. Fetishism as Cultural Discourse eds. W. Pietz, E. Apter. Cornell Myers, F.R. 2006. 'Primitivism,' anthropology and the category of Primitive art. Handbook of material culture. Sage. (selection) Price, S. 2001 [1989]. Primitive art in civilized places. Chicago.

Recommended: Freud, S. 1927. Fetishism . Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. : Hogarth. 147-57 Foster, H. 1985. The primitive" unconscious of modern art. October 34 (Autumn): 45-70. Pels, P. 1998. The spirit of matter: On fetish, rarity, fact and fancy. Border Fetishisms. Routledge. Pietz, W. 1985. The problem of the Fetish, I. Res 9. --. 1987. The problem of the Fetish II: The Origin of the Fetish. Res 13. --. 1988. The problem of the Fetish III: Bosman’s Guinea and the Enlightenment Theory of Fetishism. Res 16.

Collecting and Repatriating Culture (Canvas > Module 10) Brumfiel, E. 2003. It's a material world: History, artifacts, and anthropology . Annual Review of Anthropology. 32. 205-23 Clifford, J. 1988. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern. The Predicament of Culture. Harvard U. Press. --. Museums as Contact Zones.” Errington, S. 1994. What became authentic primitive art? Cultural Anthropology 9:2 May. (201-26) Jenkins, D. 1994. Object Lessons and Ethnographic Displays. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 36:2. 242-270. Jones, A. L. 1993 Exploding Canons: The Anthropology of Museums. Annual Review of Anthropology. Pennington, L. 2003. What Remains? Reconciling Repatriation, Aboriginal Culture and the Past. Oceania. 77:3 313-36 Riding In, J. 1996. Repatriation: A Pawnee's Perspective. American Indian Quarterly. 20:2. 238-250 Urry, J. 1989. Headhunters and Body-Snatchers . Anthropology Today. 5:5.

Analyze:

• Spielberg, Steven. 1981. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Or Temple of Doom 1984 • (clip) TBA Mummy’s curse film montage

*Graded* • Sunday 3/28 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 3/28 - Wednesday 3/31: Class Discussion

9 Week 11 - Religious Horror (Due Wed 4/7) Read: Non-Western Religion in the Movies (Canvas > Module 11) Pels, P. 1989. The Magic of Africa: Reflections on a Western Commonplace. African Studies Review 41: 3 Dec, pp. 193-209 Smith, A. 2014. This Essay Was Not Built on an Ancient Indian Burial Ground: Horror Aesthetics within Indigenous cinema as pushback against colonial violence. Off Screen. 18:8 Aug http://offscreen.com/view/horror-indigenous-cinema http://www.imaginenative.org/home/node/2769 Stone, B. 2001. The Sanctification of Fear: Images of the Religious in Horror Films.”J.of Relig and Film. 5:2 www.unomaha.edu/jrf/sanctifi.htm Weston, G. et al. 2015. Anthropologists in Films: The Horror! The Horror! American Anthropologist. 117:2 Jun. (316-28)

Case: Hatian Voudon (Canvas > Module 11) Buck-Morss, S. Hegel, Haiti and Universal History. Critical Inquiry. 26:4. Davis, W. (Selection). 1985. The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic. Simon and Schuster Del Guerico, G. 1987. The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead Anthropology Annual Editions 1987/88 188-191. Inglis, D. 2011. Putting the Undead to Work: Wade Davis, Haitian Vodou and the Social Uses of the Zombie. Race, Oppression & the Zombie Matory, L. 2007. Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religion. Journal of Religion in Africa, 37:3

Reccommended see additional readings in Afro-Atlantic Religions folder Booth, W. 1988. Voodoo Science". Science 240 (4850): 274–277. Brown, C. 1991. Introduction, Chapter 4 and 8. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. UC Press. Deren, M. 1953. (selection) The White Darkness. Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti. Vanguard. Murphy, J. 1990. Black religion and black magic: Prejudice and projection in images of African-derived religions. Religion. 20:3

Analyze:

• Wes Craven, Wes. (1988). The Serpent and the Rainbow. 98 min • (clip) Poltergeist (1982) • (clip) (1982) • (clip) The Exorcist. (1973) 122min • (clip) Child’s Play (1988) • (clip) The Manitou (1978) • (clip) Scooby-Doo • (clip) The Amityville Horror (1979) • (clip) Lenzi. Black Demons (1991) • (clip) Ghost Busters • (clip) I walk with a Zombie • (clip) Danger on Tiki Island (1968) • (trailer) Tiki (2006) • Eram, Renee. Voodoo. (1995)

• (clip) Deren, Maya. (1951) The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. 50 min

*Graded* • Sunday 4/4 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 4/4 - Wednesday 4/7: Class Discussion

10 Week 12 - and Disgust (Due Wed 4/14) Read:

Horror/Terror/Abjection/The Uncanny/Monsters (Canvas > Module 12) (selection) Douglas, M. Purity and Danger. Pels, P. 199 Mumiani: The White Vampire: A Neo-Diffusionist Analysis of Rumour. Etnofoor. 5:1/2. pp. 165-187

Case Study: Zombie-mania (Canvas > Module 12) (choose 2) Bishop, K. 2008. The Sub-Subaltern : Imperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie. J. American Culture 31:2. Comaroff & Comaroff. 2002. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism. The South Atlantic Quarterly 101:4 Lauro, S. and Embry, K. 2008. A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism. Boundary2 35:1 Kampe, C. and Gambol, A. Zombie Roots: A Historical Perspective. Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead [chronicles the changing political context] McCalister, E. Slaves, Cannibals, Hyper-infected Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Moremon, C. and Rushton, C. (selection). 2011. Race, Oppression and the Zombie. Smith, R. H. 2009. The Battle Inside: Infection and the Modern . Cinéaste, 35:1. 42-5 Stratton, J. Zombie texts, bare life and displaced people. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 14:3 265–81.

Recommended: See additional readings in Horror and Zombies folder Freud, S. 1919. The Uncanny. Jentsch, E. 1906. On the Psychology of the Uncany. (selection) Kristeva, J. 1982. Powers of Horror. An Essay on Abjection. Columbia.

Analyze: • Romero, Raul. (1968) Night of the Living Dead. 95min • TBA

Recommended: • Frankenstein Vs. The Mummy (2015) • Toxic Avenger(1984) • Saturday Night Live Season’s Greetings from Tarzan, Tonto, Frankenstein

*Graded* • Sunday 4/11 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 4/11 - Wednesday 4/14: Class Discussion

11 Week 13 - Science Fiction and The Colonial Past (Due Wed 4/21) Read: The Final Frontier: Sci-fi and Colonialism (Canvas > Module 13) Luckhurst, R. 2012. Laboratories for Global Space-Time: Science-Fictionality and the World’s Fairs 1851-1939. Science Fiction Studies. 39:3. 385-400 Redfield, P. 2002. The Half-Life of Empire in Outer Space. Social Studies of Science. 32:5. 791-825 Rieder, J. 2008. The Colonial Gaze and the Frame of science Fiction and of Appropriation: Lost Races and Discovered wealth. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan U. Press Schuller, K. 2015. Avatar and the Movements of Neocolonial Sentimental Cinema. Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 35:2: 177–193

Recommended - (also review Romanticism in week 8) Grewell, G. 2001. Colonizing the Universe: Science Fictions Then, Now, and in the (Imagined) Future. Rocky Mountain Rev 55:2 Samuels, D. 2005. Alien Tongues. E.T. Culture Sutton, T and Sutton, M. 1969. Science Fiction as Mythology. Western , 28:4. 230-7 Roth, C. 2005. Ufology as Anthropology: Race, Extraterrestrials and the Occult. E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspace. Duke Russell, L. 2002. Archaeology and Star Trek: Exploring the Past in the Future. Digging Holes in Popular Culture

Analyze: • (Trailer) J.J. Abrams. (2013) Star Trek Into Darkness 9min • Andrew Stanton. (2012) John Carter 132 min • Cameron, James. Avatar. (2009) 162min (compare with Dances with Wolves and The Last Samurai)

Recommended: • Roland Emmerich (1996). Independence Day (1996) • Steven Spielberg. (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) • Byron Haskin. (1953) War of the Worlds (1953) • 1953, 1988, 2005, 2008, 2012 War of the Worlds • (1938) War of the Worlds Radio broadcast

Literature Recommended: Rice Burroughs, Edgar. A Princess of Mars (1917) (images) H.G. Wells. War of the Worlds (1895)

*Graded* • Sunday 4/18 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 4/18 - Wednesday 4/21: Class Discussion

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Week 14 - Space is the Place for Race (Due Wed 4/28) *last day of class* Read: Group1: Analysis and Critique of the Past and Present; Imagining Alternate Histories (Canvas > Module 13) Bernardi, D. 1997. Star Trek in the 1960s: Liberal-Humanism and the Production of Race. Science Fiction Studies. 24:2. 209-25 Higgins, D. 2013. Psychic decolonization in the 1960s. Science Fiction Studies. Jul 40 :2. p228 Rieder, J. 2008. Artificial Humans and the Question of Race. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan Rutledge, G. E. 2001. Futurist Fiction & : The Racial "Establishment”. Callalo. 24: 236-252 Saethre, E. 2007. Close Encounters: UFO Beliefs in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Community” J. of Royal Anthro Inst, 13:4 Stover, Leon. 19773. Anthropology and Science Fiction. Current Anthropology 14: 4. 471-4

Group 2: (Canvas > Module 13) TBA - See additional readings in Afro-futurism folder Gipson, G. 2019. Creating and Imagining Black Futures through Afrofuturism. #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. Michigan. pp. 84-103 Strong, M., & Chaplin, K. 2019. Afrofuturism and Black Panther. Contexts, 18:2, 58–59 Derry, K. 2018. The Semi-Anti-Apocalypse of Black Panther. Journal of Religion and Film. 22:1. Gill, J. 2018. Ancestors Change Constantly: Subversive Religious Colonial Deconstruction in the Religion of Black Panther. April. Journal of Religion and Film. 22:1. Marco, D. 2018. Vibing with Blackness: Critical Considerations of Black Panther and Exceptional Black Positionings. Arts, 7:4. Gaiter, C. 2018. Visualizing a Black Future: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party. Journal of Visual Culture.

Group 3: Hip Hop and Jazz from Outer space (Canvas > Module 13) View: Sun Ra’s Afrofuturistic Album Covers - https://flashbak.com/sun-ras-afrofuturistic-album-covers-405820/ Wright, A. 2013. Exploring the Funkadelic Aesthetic: Intertextuality and Cosmic Philosophizing in Funkadelic’s Album Covers and Liner Notes. American Studies, 524, 141–169,260. Brown, S. 2013. The Blues/Funk Futurism of Roger Troutman. American Studies, 5:24, 119-123. Rambsy, H. 2013. Beyond Keeping It Real: OutKast, the Funk Connection, and Afrofuturism. American Studies, 52:4, 205-16 English, D., & Kim, A. 2013. Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe's Neo-Afrofuturism. American Studies 52:4, 217-30 Mcleod, K. 2013. Afro-Samurai: Techno-Orientalism and contemporary hip hop. Popular Music, 3:22, 259-275 Kreiss, D. 2012. Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future Underground, 1954-1968. African American Review, 4:51/2, 197-203 McLeod, K. 2003. Space Oddities: Aliens, Futurism and Meaning in Popular Music. Popular Music, 22:3, 337-355.

Recommended https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol22/iss1/ April. 2018. Journal of Religion and Film. 22:1. Africology: The Journal of Pan-African Studies http://www.jpanafrican.org/index.htm Battaglia, D. Multiplicities: An Anthropologist's Thoughts on Replicants and Clones in Popular Film. --. 2005. Insider’s Voice in Outerspace. E.T. Culture Analyze (pick one): • (Clip) Coney, John. Space is the Place (1974) (starring Sun Ra) • (clip) The Brother from Another Planet (1984) • Koogler, Ryan. Black Panther. (2018) • The Mothership –examples of popular music performances with “Mothership” theme -Parliament, D.J. Snoopadelic,

*Graded* • Sunday 4/25 - Film/reading response. • Sunday 4/25 - Wednesday 4/28: Class Discussion

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