12 November 2006
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
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
Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks
Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading
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.
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
06 October 2006
The Media and Communications Studies Site
gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis
05 October 2006
Flow Conference 2006
Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.
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
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
24 September 2006
SPF 583 - Visual Ethnography
excellent course outline
