12 November 2006
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
CHRONOLOGY OF DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
useful for courses on history of documentary
11 November 2006
Literary Theory. Literary Criticism
very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities
Scope - Institute of Film Studies journal
published by Univ of Nottingham
06 November 2006
Photoethnography.com
links to courses compiled by Karen Nakamura, who notes that most courses in Visual Anthropology teach visual analysis and not visual production
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
01 November 2006
U B U W E B
by 28 others"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film
31 October 2006
Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page
much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures
Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan
chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster
homepage with many interesting links by prolific scholar
30 October 2006
Planned Obsolescence
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
21 October 2006
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
reviews in cultural studies, film, and television; from NYU
19 October 2006
Introduction to Genre Theory
by Daniel Chandler--the major theoretical concept that ties film/tv and literature together.
15 October 2006
Expanding the Frame on International Cinema - Welcome to Cinema Scope Magazine Online. Issue 28
Canadian ejournal of film studies
09 October 2006
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler
semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography
Film Resources
a teacher's well annotated links page for film studies, updated 2003
Hugh McCarney
list of his courses, each of which has many film and communications studies essays available in full text form
06 October 2006
The Media and Communications Studies Site
gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis
02 October 2006
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.
course outline on social construction of space
understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians
"Junk Food Nation: Colwyn Griffith's Tourism Photographs" by Robert Evans
theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
01 October 2006
Visual Culture Bibliography
seems to have been written about 2003
