Abstract:Film as a type of visual culture has become research text in mass culture by anthropologists.Film as visual representation in culture has become cultural information for anthropologists to observe the society. Anthropologists take various methodologies to study film and has brought changes in the methodology of film studies. Anthropologists regard visual art as a part of cultural symbol in cultural system in their opinion. So they take different methodologies to study film in anthropological context including semiotics, ethnography, perceptual anthropology and new art history on contemporary film studies. Anthropologists see the cultural significance and social structure of the society in the film from different orientations.