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List of Written Materials on this Website

• SOAA Video LAB
  
  
• Strategies for Editing at the CDA Pathways to go from any original through creative editing to a master tape. (PDF)
• Final Cut Pro Tutorial (HTML) (PDF) (Ebook)
  
  
• Himalayan Herders - book and film
  
  
• Himalayan Herders annotated transcript of the film (HTML) This has scores of thumbnail images as well as the text of the film.
  
• Himalayan Herders annotated transcript of the film (PDF)
  
• Himalayan Herders Book Table of Contents (HTML)
  
• Himalayan Herders Book introduction (PDF) Evokes a day in a herder's life. (HTML version)
  
• Himalayan Herders American Anthropologist review of the film (HTML) (PDF version)
  
• Making Himalayan Herders Written for the Beeld voor Beeld film festival, this is about how the film came to be made and assume its shape. (PDF)
  
  
• Hosay Trinidad, film
  
  
• Memory, Innovation and Emergent Ethnicities: The Creolization of an Indo-Trinidadian Performance by Frank Korom (PDF)
• Hosay Trinidad, transcript (PDF)
  
  
• General Film, Video, Visual Anthropology
  
  by John Bishop
  
• Film Time Code Originally appeared in Independent Documentary magazine.  It is a friendly introduction to using time code in film production. (PDF)
  
• Video Self: !Kung and Khmer Article from book and conference Eyes Across the Water. (PDF)
• Excerpt from Home Video Production . Chapter 3, Making It look Good (PDF)
• How Video Works from Making it in Video (PDF)
  
• Article about the film Yoyo Man (PDF)
  
• Land Where the Blues Began Filmmakers Newsletter article. (PDF)
• Alan Lomax as Builder and User of Ethnographic Film Archives (PDF) Visual Origins Conference, IWF, Göttingen 2001
• Life By Myth: The Development of Ethnographic Filming in the Work of John Marshall Visual Origins Conference, IWF, Göttingen 2001
• The Camera as Choreographer in Documentary and Ethnographic Film In Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, Judy Mitoma ed.,Routledge Press, 2002
• Alan Lomax and Choreometrics In Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, Judy Mitoma ed.,Routledge Press, 2002
• Alan Lomax 1915-2002 A Remembrance:Alan Lomax and Visual Anthropology Visual Anthropology Review 17(2) Fall/Winter 2001-2002.
• Edmund Carpenter:Explorations in Media & Anthropology by Harald Prins & john Bishop Visual Anthropology Review 17(2) Fall/Winter 2001-2002
  
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• Choremetrics and Ethnographic Filmmaking Filmmakers Newsletter article by Alan Lomax. (PDF)
• Toward An Ethnographic Film Archive Filmmakers Newsletter article by Alan Lomax. (PDF)
• Excerpts from Oh What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me by Edmund Carpenter (PDF)
• Twilight of the University by Edmund Carpenter (PDF)
• On Making Dead Birds by Robert Gardner (PDF)
• Forest of Bliss interview Robert Gardner and Akos Oster (PDF)
• Sample Release forms that you can adapt. (PDF)
• Excerpt from Interview with Ross McElwee about shooting with John Marshall on N!ai.
• Passing Girl:Riverside transcript of a film by Kwame Braun.
  
  
• Reviews of my Films
  
  
• American Anthropologist review of Rhesus Play (PDF)
• American Anthropologist review of Yoyo Man (PDF)
• American Anthropologist review Himalayan Herders of the film (PDF)
• Ethnomusicology review Land Where the Blues Began (PDF)
• American Anthropologist review New England Fiddles & New England Dances
• Ethnomusicology review of New England Fiddles & New England Dances
• Notes review of Khmer Court Dance
  
  
• Transcripts of my Films
  
  
• Himalayan Herders annotated transcript of the film (PDF)
• Hosay Trinidad, transcript (PDF)
• Yoyo Man Transcript (PDF)
• Oh,What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me! Edmund Carpenter transcript (PDF)
  
  
• Other Writings
  
  
• Cecily Parsily Runs Away a novel by John Bishop written in 1971 and never published. (PDF)
• Cat's Eye: the Cosmic Perspective by Amanda Bishop (PDF) (Ebook)