Course Readings

Required Books (purchase at USC Bookstore)
Note: Bookstore has Weynand book for Final Cut Pro 6 (FCP 6). IML labs have FCP 7. Books are not that different, but if you want the FCP 7 version, order it online.

Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor. Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Berkeley: University of California 1997.

Crawford, Peter Ian and David Turton. Film As Ethnography. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992.

Weynand, Diana, Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7. Berkeley: Peachpit Press 2009

Required Readings

Asch, Timothy. The ethics of ethnographic film-making. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (196-204)

Banks, Marcus. Talking Heads and Moving Pictures: David Byrne's True Stories and the Anthropology of Film (dowload PDF), Visual Anthropology, Vol 3, pp. 1-9, 1990.

Banks, Marcus. The Seductive Veracity of Ethnographic Film (dowload PDF), SVA Review, 16-21, Spr. 1990

Banks, Marcus. The Non-Transparency of Ethnographic Film (dowload PDF), Anthropology Today, Vol. 4, No. 5 (Oct., 1988), pp. 2-3. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3032746

Brower, Kenneth. Photography in the Age of Falsification, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1998.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.htm

Chion, Michel. "Projections of Sound on Image," in Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, pp. 3-24. (photocopy, 21pp)

Crawford, Peter Ian. Film as discourse: the invention of anthropological realities. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (66-82)

Crawford, Peter Ian and David Turton, Part 4. Television and New Technologies, Introduction. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (259-263)

Faris, James C. Anthropological transparency: film, representation, and politices. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (171-182)

Feld, Steve and Donald Brenneis, "Doing anthropology in sound" (dowload PDF), American Ethnologist, Volume 31 Number 4, November 2004

Ginsburg, Faye, The After-Life of Documentary: The Impact of You Are on Indian Land (dowload PDF, 8pp), Wide Angle Vol . 2 1 No. 2 (March 1999), pp. 60-67. © Ohio University School of Film
View Film: You Are on Indian Land

Ginsburg, Faye, Rethinking Documentary in the Digital Age (dowload PDF, 6pp), Cinema lournal; Fall 2006; 46, I' Research Library Core pg. 128

Loizos, Peter. Admissible Evidence? Film in Anthropology. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (50-65)

Lutkehaus, Nancy and Jenny Cool. Paradigms Lost and Found: The 'Crisis of Representation' and Visual Anthropology (dowload PDF), In Collecting Visible Evidence. Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media (download PDF), Cambridge. MA: The MIT Press 2002.
Note: PDF contains entire book. Read: Prologue (pp. 6-26 of the PDF) and Introduction (pp. 30-42 of the PDF).
PDF does not contain images, see photocopy.

Martinez, Wilton. Who constructs anthropological knowledge? Toward a theory of ethnographic film spectatorship. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (131-161)

Minh-ha, Trinh T. Notes on the Cinema Stylographer: Trinh T. Minh-ha Archives (skip to heading "Reassemblage, 1982")

Mitchell, William J., Intention and Artifice. In The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (pp. 23-57). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. (http://www.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Mitchell/MitchellIntention.html)
Text above is without images: See Images from Intention and Artifice

Roth, Michael. "Hiroshima Mon Amour, You Must Remember This," in Revisioning history: film and the construction of a new past, Robert A. Rosenstone (Editor). Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 91-101. (photocopy)

Ruby, Jay. Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside--An Anthropological and Documentary Dilemma, Visual Anthropology Review Vol. 7 Number 2, Fall 1991.

Seaman, Gary and Homer Williams. Hypermedia in ethnography. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (300-311)

Singer, André. Anthropology in broadcasting. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (264-273)

Taylor, Lucien, Review of The Ethnographer's Eye by Anna Grimshaw and Visual Methods by Marcus Banks (dowload PDF, 3pp), American Anthropologist, Vol. 104, No. 2, June 2002.

Taylor, Lucien, Review: "Visual Anthropology Is Dead, Long Live Visual Anthropology!" (dowload PDF, 4pp), American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 534-537

Turton, David. Anthropology on television: what next? In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (283-299)

Vaughan, Dai. "Notes on the Ascent of a Fictitious Mountain," in Documentary and the Mass Media, John Corner (Editor), London: Edward Arnold Publishers, 1986, pp. 161-175. (photocopy, 14pp)

Wright, Terence. Television narrative and ethnographic film. In Film As Ethnography. Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton, eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press 1992. (274-282)

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