Topic:  FROM TARZAN TO THE HOT HEADS:  THE USE OF FILM IN
THE STUDY OF ART
Above section for UG only
This class is aimed at the critical examination of films on
or about art and culture.  A surprisingly large number of such
films exist, and while many are very good, many are not.  We will
view, discuss and critique films across the whole spectrum, from
good to bad, and we will include in our examination films on:
visual and performance art, shocking, cultural acts, people from
other parts of the world, and artists making art.  Some of the
films are made by people in the arts.  Others were made by
ethnographers.  But in an important sense all the films are a
kind of ethnography, in that they tell stories about non-Western
cultures or areas of Western culture that are often little known,
poorly understood, even mysterious or odd to many Americans.