COM 478 Documentary and Ethnographic Video
Hilbert.edu Communication Studies Center for Creative Media
Students in this course take a basic understanding of video production and marry it to the research techniques of ethnographic or documentary studies. This assumes that a student will be able to produce basic, quality video images and sound using modern equipment, but stresses academically and ethically valid methods or research instead of master of the "art" of video.

Prerequisites: COM 275 or permission of instructor.

Sample Syllabus: Spring 2000

Bibliography

Barnouw, Eric. (1992). Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. Oxford University Press.

Crawford P. eds. (1992) Film as Ethnography. Manchester University Press.

Grierson, John. (1946). Grierson on Documentary. Collins.

Heider, Karl, (2003) Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film. Pearson Education.

Rothman, William. (1997). Documentary Film Classics. Cambridge University Press.

Stubbs, Liz. (2002). Documentary Filmmakers Speak. Allworth Press.

Filmography

Steve James' "Stevie

Errol Morris’s “Vernon, Florida

Errol Morris's "Thin Blue Line"

Alan Shapiro’s “Scared Straight.”

Jane Loader and Kevin Rafferty’s, “The Atomic Cafe

Ross McElwee’s “Sherman’s March

Pare Lorentz’s “The Plow that Broke the Plain

Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of Will

Jacques Cousteau’s “The Silent World

Godfrey Reggio’s “Koyaanisqatsi

Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North

Alain Resnais’s “Night and Fog

Robert Gardner’s “Dead Birds

Jeffery Blitz's "Spellbound