The following books and articles have been mentioned in class or are directly related to some of the discussions in class and are recommended for further study:

• Karen Gocsik, “Writing about Film,”Dartmouth Writing Program, July 12, 2005.
• Paul Henley, The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
• Stephen Mamber, Cinema Verite in America: Studies in Uncontrolled Documentary, The MIT Press, 1976.
• Jean Rouch, Ciné-Ethnography, Steven Feld, Ed. and Trans., University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
• Jay Ruby, Picturing Culture: Explorations of film & anthropology, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
• The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic by Melanie McGrath (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007). Link to Amazon Page, Link to New York Times Review [illustrates the contrast between how the Inuit have been perceived by movie audiences versus the treatment they have received from the Canadian government]
• Errol Morris, “Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part One),” The New York Times (Opinionator Blog), September 25, 2007. Link to Article [an excellent essay on the nature of photographic evidence]
• Katherine Gracki, “True Lies: Staging the Ethnographic Interview in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989),” Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 36, (2001), pp. 48-63, www.jstor.org/stable/3595469 [good analysis of the film]
• Linda Williams, “Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary,” Film Quarterly 46:3 (Spring, 1993), pp. 9-21, www.jstor.org/stable/1212899
• Renée R. Curry, “Errol Morris’ Construction of Innocence in The Thin Blue Line,” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49:2 (1995), pp. 153-167, www.jstor.org/stable/1347983
• William Rothman, “Chronicle of a Summer,” in Documentary Film Classics, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 69-107, Download PDF (from der.org)
• Barbara Bruni, “Jean Rouch: Cinéma-vérité, Chronicle of a Summer and The Human Pyramid,” Senses of Cinema Issue 19, March 13, 2002, Revised June 9, 2011, Link to Article
• Julian Vigo: “Power/Knowledge and Discourse: Turning the Ethnographic Gaze Around in Jean Rouch’s Chronique d’un Ete,” Visual Sociology, 1995, pp. 14–39, Download PDF (from archive.org)

The following books are currently on reserve at the MassArt library. Additional titles may be added throughout the semester.

• About Documentary: Anthropology on film: a philosophy of people and art, by Robert Edmonds
• Beyond Document: Essays on nonfiction film, edited by Charles Warren
• Blurred Boundaries: Questions of meaning in contemporary culture, by Bill Nichols
• Cinema Studies: The key concepts, by Susan Hayward
• Crafting Truth: Documentary form and meaning, by Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro (required textbook)
• Documentary: A history of the non-fiction film, by Erik Barnouw
• Expanded Cinema, by Gene Younglood
• Experimental Ethnography: The work of film in the age of video, by Catherine Russell
• Guerrilla Television, by Michael Shamberg and Raindance Corporation
• New Documentary in Action: A casebook in film making
• A New History of Documentary Film, by Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane (required textbook)
• Nonfiction Film : A critical history, Richard M. Barsam
• Otherness and the Media: The ethnography of the imagined and the imaged, edited by Hamid Naficy and Teshome H. Gabriel
• Theorizing Documentary, edited by Michael Renov