Academic Style : Chicago
Film: Half the Sky
Class Readings:
Trostle 7 AND Conclusions, Portero and Rubio
Read:Obrist et al, Ahorlu et al
(Portero, J., & Rubio, M. (2003). Private practitioners and tuberculosis control in the Philippines: Strangers when they meet? Tropical Medicine & International Health, 8(4), 329-335.
Brigit Obrist, Guladio Cisse, Brama Kon, Kouassi Dongo, Stefanie Granado, & Marcel Tanner. (2006). Interconnected Slums: Water, Sanitation and Health in Abidjan, Cte d’Ivoire. The European Journal of Development Research, 18(2), 319-336.
Ahorlu, Collins K., Koram, Kwadwo A., Ahorlu, Cynthia, De Savigny, Don, & Weiss, Mitchell G. (2006). Sociocultural determinants of treatment delay for childhood malaria in southern Ghana. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 11(7), 1022-1031.
Obrist, B, & Van Eeuwijk, P. (2020). Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa: Three Hotspots. Medical Anthropology Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 1-13.)
DIRECTIONS Locate”Half the Sky” (available on Amazon or iTunes). Watch it, and TAKE NOTES. Include countries of focus, which health-related issues are discussed, and note the attention to gender (Half the Sky). Review your notes and write a TWO PAGE response in which you:
1) Explain who made the film (you will have to search for this information), and what you think the overall message of the film is. What point or argument is the director/producer trying to make? How do they attempt to make that argument? Use details from the film. (1 page)
2) Discuss one instance in the film that you find interesting or provocative. Why do you think you responded the way you did? (1/2 a page)
3) Draw connections between the contents of the film and the materials we have been reading. Where do we see examples of the intersection between culture/ethnicity and epidemiology? Cite at LEAST 2 written sources from the class using the Chicago style.
4) Include a bibliography AND your notes! (These are not included in the paper page count.)
RATIONALE:
Film Responses give you the chance to consider how topics you’ve read about may be presented in audio-visual formats. Like the Reading Journals, these assignments challenge you to think carefully about who is presenting what information and why; to consider how you might evaluate your own responses to films, and to consider how you might evaluate the contents of popular media sources based on what you’ve read in academic sources.
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