Film Screening: College Football Tailgating at LSU
Presentation Location
VSU University Center, Theater
Document Type
Event
Start Date
11-3-2023 1:00 PM
End Date
11-3-2023 2:00 PM
Description
Film Screening: College Football Tailgating at LSU
Kashif Rustamani
In this short ethnographic film, I follow two spaces, in the form of tailgating tents between September to November 2022 at Louisiana State University (LSU). Through observational and participatory techniques, interviews, and ethnographic filmmaking practices this film explores participants’ perceptions of established tailgates and relatively newer ones.
This research uses the theoretical approach of “actors” and “events” (Shrum, et al., 2017) to document and analyze social events by using a micro-level analysis of group behavior and social interactions revolving around the tailgate and football games. The movie answers two questions. First, how does tailgating function as a social and cultural space that draws people from across the southern United States? Second, how people reinforce the networks consisting of actor and their social relations by participating in the event “tailgating.” Findings show that tailgating as event and experience is deeply rooted in the social structure of communities who are avid followers of college football. Over the years, established tailgates have formed strong relations among members and are teaching the young generation how to host tailgates through participatory experience. The future of LSU tailgates depends on the younger generation setting up new tailgates and adapting to latest trends in college football. Works Cited Wesley Shrum and Scott Greg 2017 Video Ethnography in Practice: Planning, Shooting, and Editing for Social Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE.
Recommended Citation
Rustamani, Kashif, "Film Screening: College Football Tailgating at LSU" (2023). Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society. 29.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southernanthro_meeting/2023/schedule/29
Film Screening: College Football Tailgating at LSU
VSU University Center, Theater
Film Screening: College Football Tailgating at LSU
Kashif Rustamani
In this short ethnographic film, I follow two spaces, in the form of tailgating tents between September to November 2022 at Louisiana State University (LSU). Through observational and participatory techniques, interviews, and ethnographic filmmaking practices this film explores participants’ perceptions of established tailgates and relatively newer ones.
This research uses the theoretical approach of “actors” and “events” (Shrum, et al., 2017) to document and analyze social events by using a micro-level analysis of group behavior and social interactions revolving around the tailgate and football games. The movie answers two questions. First, how does tailgating function as a social and cultural space that draws people from across the southern United States? Second, how people reinforce the networks consisting of actor and their social relations by participating in the event “tailgating.” Findings show that tailgating as event and experience is deeply rooted in the social structure of communities who are avid followers of college football. Over the years, established tailgates have formed strong relations among members and are teaching the young generation how to host tailgates through participatory experience. The future of LSU tailgates depends on the younger generation setting up new tailgates and adapting to latest trends in college football. Works Cited Wesley Shrum and Scott Greg 2017 Video Ethnography in Practice: Planning, Shooting, and Editing for Social Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE.