CIN270Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Participant Observation
11 May 2018
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018
CIN270Y1
CLASS 2.16
The Animated & Animation: The Relocation of Movies?
The “Ethnographic” Imagination
• David Simon: journalist-ethnographer
• Participant observation: what is the hoped-for data?
• Language, procedure, the outline of social relations
• Signs for the existence of a larger system that affects daily life
• Clockers and The Wire: multiple sites (precincts, homes, schools)
• But race is not reduced to the problem of racism – it is linked to class, work (and its
decline)
• It’s connected to the failure of government, education, media
• These are interconnected social strata!
***on exam, respond on this matter of the ethnographic imagination and how The Wire responds
to what Clockers is doing
WALL-E
- The goal of this film is to look like cinema
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