Visual and New Media Review

Visual and New Media Review is a multimedia forum for expanding the boundaries of academic and artistic engagement. Working at the intersections of anthropology, contemporary art, media, sound and film studies, and the digital humanities, the section seeks to sustain dialogues among these kindred pursuits and to provide a platform for experimental and innovative work, as well as critical assessment and reviews of scholarship, film, and visual culture.

Contact Us

Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to section editors Jill J. Tan ([email protected]), Ara Ortiz ([email protected]), and Alejandro Jaramillo ([email protected]).

Behind the Screens: Anand Pandian

Behind the Screens: Anand Pandian

It’s been a while, but I’m happy to finally publish this third post of the Visual and New Media Review video blog, Behind the Screens. The blog highlights the... More

Creative Criticism: Sound and Listening in Sensory Documentary

Creative Criticism: Sound and Listening in Sensory Documentary

The Visual and New Media Review section of the Cultural Anthropology website is pleased to announce a new series, Creative Criticism, which will give space to... More

Screening Room: Cast in India

Screening Room: Cast in India

We hope you were able to enjoy Cast in India! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the trailer, filmmaker interview, and other teachi... More

Behind the Screens: Faye Ginsburg

Behind the Screens: Faye Ginsburg

Welcome to the second post of the Visual and New Media Review’s video blog, Behind the Screens. This blog shines light on how anthropologists are exploring th... More

Screening Room: Peasant Family Happiness

Screening Room: Peasant Family Happiness

We hope you were able to enjoy the film Peasant Family Happiness! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the filmmaker interview and ot... More

Screening Room: The Absent Stone

Screening Room: The Absent Stone

Over the next two weeks, the Visual and New Media Review is pleased to screen The Absent Stone (2013), a film by Sandra Rozental and Jesse Lerner. The film unp... More

Screening Room: Griot

Screening Room: Griot

Last winter, Cultural Anthropology and the Visual and New Media Review had the opportunity to screen Collecting in the Collection: 46 Inuit Artifacts in the Ber... More

On Citizenfour: A Conversation with Bernard Harcourt

On Citizenfour: A Conversation with Bernard Harcourt

Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary film Citizenfour portrays Edward Snowden and the whistleblowing operation that exposed surveillance practices within the Nati... More

Time and the Axe: A Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite

Time and the Axe: A Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite

For contemporary viewers of documentary, Anna Grimshaw’s four-part series Mr. Coperthwaite: A Life in the Maine Woods, is a lesson in patience. Part 1, “Spring... More

Behind the Screens: Jenna Burrell

Behind the Screens: Jenna Burrell

Welcome to the first post of the Visual and New Media Review’s video blog, Behind the Screens. This blog shines light on how anthropologists are exploring the... More