Kevin Anderson

My research traverses the fields of film studies and anthropology, particularly along the lines of the social aesthetics and phenomenology of technology and the body.  My articles have appeared in PostScript, Journal of Film and Video, Film and Philosophy, AfterImage, and Medical Anthropology. My film projects have taken me to Ethiopia, Japan, Ireland, Nigeria, Italy, and India.

PhD, Cultural and Visual Anthropology – University of Massachusetts

Possible Futures: Science Fiction in Global Cinema; Experimental Film and Video; Intermediate Digital Filmmaking; Advanced Digital Filmmaking; Music, Culture, and the Moving Image; Visual Communication; History of American Film; Cinematic Bodies in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2013, Altered States of Embodiment and the Social Aesthetics of Acupuncture, Journal of Alternative and Integrative Medicine 2:112.

2010, Holistic Medicine Not "Torture": Performing Acupuncture in Galway, Ireland, Medical Anthropology 29.3, 1-25

2009, Tickling and Teasing the Real: Mocking Reality TV in the film Series 7, Post Script, 28(3):108--122

2006, Joris Ivens' 400 Million, Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, ed. Ian Aitken.  New York and London (3 pgs.)

2004, Toward an Anarchy of Imagery: Questioning the Categorization of Films as 'Ethnographic'.  Journal of Film and Video 55(2-3)

2003, Finding the Essential: A Phenomenological Look at Hal Hartley's No Such Thing.  Film and Philosophy, Vol. VII, Pp. 77-91

2003, The Blues According to Wim.  Afterimage, Nov/Dec.

1999, Ethnographic Hypermedia: Transcending Thick Descriptions (22 pgs.) Web site on Transcultural Image and Visual Anthropology, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

I am currently in development of a nonfiction series, The Future of Coffee.  My film Awakening the Internal Sound: the music and mission of Rabindra Goswami (2020), has played in multiple international film festivals and most recently won the prize for Best Documentary Short at the Beyond Earth Film Festival.  My film, Layers of Pompeii (2019), has also screened at festivals.  My film heros are Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, and Maya Deren.