October 2006
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.
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
Image and Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
by 2 othersvaluable resource, worth time to print out and read selected essays
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
September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.
SPF 583 - Visual Ethnography
excellent course outline
WEB RESOURCES FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2001 updated
Visual Ethnography and Anthropology Links
of interest to anyone interested in documentary
Medical Animation and Medical Illustration
Beautiful online animation of the Life of a Cell. I want to return to the site to learn what I just saw means.
August 2006
Strictly Film School | Analysis of Landmark Cinema
by 4 othersmany important avant garde films here in clips
Digital Poetics:
film blog that is also savvy about new media
Digital Aesthetics
site to accompany Sean Cubitt's book Digital Aesthetics
July 2006
Robert Haller Publications
writings of Robert Haller on avant-garde film and filmmakers
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
important journal covering independent and avant-garde films; complete index; online essays begin with issue no. 26, fall 1992
eye | the international review of graphic design
by 2 othersnew journal of graphic design and visual culture
Jennifer Mapes
photographer and geographer studying small towns
The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
important essay by Miriam Hansen
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
a relatively new film studies blog, reviews texts, offers syllabi
Film Analysis
an extensive and well illustrated--with stills and clips--analysis of film aesthetics and terminology; a good basic resource for any media teacher or film lover to spend time working through
timescape syllabus
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."
Space Time Travel - Relativity Visualized
Online papers, images, movies and paper models of the theory of relativity
Notes on the Cinema Stylographer
beautifully written film blog, often on experimental work
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
mixture of art and criticism in its focus
