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Visual Anthropology Theoretical Literature List

Ana Isabel, A. & László, K. & Pink, S.

2004 Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography. London: Routledge.

Banks, M. & Morphy, H.

1997 Rethinking Visual Anthropology. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Banks, M.

2003 Visual methods in social research. London: Sage Publications.

Barbash, I.

1997 Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic films and videos. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Boonzajer Fleas, R & Harper, D.

1993 Eyes across the water, two: essays on visual anthropology and sociology. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

Collier, J.

1986 Visual Anthropology: photography as a research method. Albuqueque: University of new Mexica Press

Crawford, P.I. & Turton, D.

1992 Film as ethnography. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Crawford, P.I. & Postma, M.

2005 Reflecting Visual Ethnography: using the camera in anthropological research. Leiden: CNWS Publications, Hoberg: Intervention Press.

MacDougall, David

1998 Transcultural Cinema

Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

MacDougall, David

2006 The Corporeal Image

Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

De Bromhead, Toni

1996 Looking two ways

Intervention Press.

Devereaux, L & Hillman, R.

1995 Fields of Vision: essays in film studies, visual anthopology, and photography. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Grimshaw, A.

2001 The Ethnographer’s eye: ways of seeing anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2002

Hastrup, Kirsten

1992 Film as Ethnography.

Intervention Press, Aarhuss.

Heider, K.

1976 Ethnographic film. Austin: University of Texas

1995 Films for Anthropological Teaching

1997 Seeing Anthropology: culturla antrhopology through film. Boston: Pearson/Allyn an Bacon.

Hockings, P.

1975 Principles of Visual Anthropology. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Loizes, P.

1993 Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self-consciousness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

MacDougall, D.

1998 Transcultural cinema. Princeton, New York: Princeton University Press.

2006 The Corporal image: Film, Ethnography, and the senses. Princeton, New York: Princeton University Press.

Pink, S.

2001 Doing visual ethnography: images, media and representation in research. London: Sage Publications.

2007 Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology. New York: Berghan Books.

Place, Linda Marie.

The experience of self among Turkish village women: an ethnographer’s journal

UMI Ann Arbor, MI 1989

Prosser, J.

1998 Image-based research: a sourcebook for qualitative researchers. London, Bristol: Falmer Press.

Ruby, J.

1999 Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology. Chicage: University of Chicago Press.

Taylor, Lucien

Visualizing theory : selected essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994

Routledge New York 1994

Visual anthropology review : journal of the Society for Visual Anthrop

Center for Visual Anthropology Los Angeles 1058-7187 1991

Journal of Visual Culture

Selected Books on Documentary Filmmaking

Braverman, Barry: Video Shooter: Storytelling with DV, HD, and HDV Cameras (DV Expert Series), CMP Books; Pap/Dvdr edition (January 15, 2006)

Ellis, Jack C.: A New History of Documentary Film, Continuum (August 30, 2005)

Rabiger, Michael: Directing the Documentary, Focal Press; 4 edition (April 13, 2004)

Rosenthal, Alan: Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, Southern Illinois University Press; 4th edition (June 13, 2007)

Visual Anthropology Films List

Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North (1922)

Dziga Vertov, Man with the moving camera (1929)

John Marshall, The hunters (1958)

Jean Rouch, Chronicle of Summer (1961), Moi un Noir (1961), Jaguar (1967)

William Klein, Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1969)

Robert Gardner, Dead birds (1963), Forest of Bliss (1986), The Nuer (1970)

Timothy Asch, The Ax Fight (1975)

Philo Bregstein , Jean Rouch and His Camera In the heart of Africa (1979)

Trin T. Minh-Ha, Reassamblage (1982), Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989)

William Klein, In and Out of Fashion (1998)

Harun Farocki, Images of the World and The Inscription of War/Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1989), Videogrammes d’une révolution roumaine/Videogramme einer Revolution/Videogram of a Revolution (1992), I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts/Ich glaubte Gefangene zu sehen (2000)

Contemporary Visual Anthropology Films

Jayasinhija Jhala, Close Encounter of No Kind (2002)

Matt McCormick, The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2002)

Byambasuren Davaa, The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003)

Chris Marker, Chats Perches (2004)

Michael Glawogger, Workingman’s Death (2005)

Alan Berliner, Wide Awake (2006)

Pierre Lamarque, The King Never Dies (2007)

Ton Otto & Christian Suhr Nielsen, Ngat is Dead: Studying Mortuary Traditions (2007)

Kerstin Feurle, Happens to be blind (2008)

Julia Kurc, In skirts they go (2008)

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