Theoretical Foundations
Reddy, M The Conduit Metaphor: A Case of Frame Conflict in Our Language about Language. in Ortony, A. ed. Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1979; pp. 164-201.
Iser, W. The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1974; pp. 274-294.
Barthes, R. Image Music Text. Hill and Wang, New York, 1977; pp. 142-148 & pp. 155-164.
de Saussure, F., Bally, C., Sechehaye, A. and Riedlinger, A. Course in General Linguistics. Open Court, LaSalle, Ill., 1986; pp. 6-17, pp. 65-19, & pp. 101-134.
Kittler, Friedrich. Film, Gramophone, Typewriter. “Film.”
Formalist Media theory
Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; multiple selections, pp.
Kuleshov, L. Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleshov. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974; pp. 41-55.
Isenhour, J.P. The Effects of Context and Order in Film Editing. AV Communications Review, 23 (1); pp. 69-80.
Burch, N. Theory of film practice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1981; pp. 3-16.
Barthes, R. Action Sequences. In Strelka, J. ed., Patterns of Literary Style. State University of Pennsylvania Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1971; pp. 5-14
Production as Theoretical Application
Eco, U. Articulations of the Cinematic Code. in Nichols, B. ed., University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976; pp. 590-607.
Metz, C. Film language: a semiotics of the cinema. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991; pp. 92-107 & pp. 108-146.
Eisenstein, S.M. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, 1949; pp. 45-63.
*Additional resources on video editing*
Contexts for Multimedia
Winograd, T. and Flores, F. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Ablex Publication Corp., Norword, New Jersey, 1986; pp. 83-92.
Hillis, W.D. The pattern on the stone : the simple ideas that make computers work. Perseus Books, New York, 1999; pp. vii-90.
Manovich, L. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001; pp. 19-61. (Hard copies handed out in class.)
Jenkins, H. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. Routledge, New York, 1992; pp. 223-249.
Multimedia Systems
Manovich, L.The Practice of Everyday “Media” Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production? Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter 2009); 319-331.
Elizabeth Churchill; Jeff Ubois. Designing for Digital Archives, ACM Interactions (March-April 2008); 10-13
Jude Yew; David A. Shamma; Elizabeth F. Churchill. Knowing Funny: Genre Perception and Categorization in Social Video Sharing. ACM CHI (2011); 1-10
Peter B. Kaufman, Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web, Intelligent Television White Paper (October 2010); 1-35
P. Aigrain, H. Zhang, and D. Petkovic. Content-based Representation and Retrieval of Visual Media: A State-of-the-Art Review; Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 3, 1996; pp. 178-202.
A. W. M. Smeulders, M. Worring, S. Santini, A. Gupta, and R. Jain. Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, 2000; pp. 1349-1380.
N. Dimitrova, H.-J. Zhang, B. Shahraray, I. Sezan, T. Huang, and A. Zakhor, “Applications of Video Content Analysis and Retrieval,” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 9, 2002; pp. 42-55.
Prelinger, R. ARCHIVAL SURVIVAL: The Fundamentals of Using Film Archives and Stock Footage Libraries. The Independent Film & Video Monthly (October); pp. 1-4.
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