Student Documentaries | the-virtual-past

(The following videos are still available in the public domain; To view their work, simply click on the images below.)

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"Japan and Perry" By A. Krowiak, J. Smith, and M. Stuart (Class of 2016)

These students also created a video implementing the mapping technologies described above. Featured in this video is the students' analysis of various images and reports based on their understanding of Orientalism by Edward Said.

American Impressions on Japanese Landscape and Culture. By A. Pradhan, and A. King

These students take the documentary viewers on a unique exploration of the primary sources they observed in Connecticut College's Linda Lear Special Collections. In addition, these students' documentary features unique one-on-one interviews with Special Collections Director Ben Panciera and their course instructor, Prof. A. M. Davis

"Japan. 'Ignorant' and 'Childlike'" by T. Chapman and J. Blair (Class of 2016)

Chapman and Blair incorporated a multimedia technology in their video report that allowed them to illustrate the voyage that Commodore William Perry took when he infamously "opened" Japan from 1853-1854

This gallery features videos and documentaries created by students who have taken my First Year Seminar on Cross-cultural Representations of East and West. The presentations are based on the students' interpretation of primary source documents that they learned to locate online and, moreover, in the archival databases at the Connecticut College Libraries.

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