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01/21/07

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These are some of the things we're studying. Things about "Critical Media Literacy," and things about authoring media. (These are UCLA campus links, but you can find some of them online elsewhere). In this list, the praxis - "integration of theory and practice" - is clear.

Required Readings
- Critical Media Literacy is Not an Option (pp 1-6) - Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share
- Teaching Critical Media Literacies: Theory, Praxis, and Empowerment - Rhonda Hammer
- Elements of the Shot - Roy Thompson
- Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks
- The Media Student's Book - Branston, Stafford, Kowaltzke, et al.
- Simple Shots - Roy Thompson
- The Rise of the Insta-Doc - Corrie Pikul
- Television Culture - John Fiske
- Critical Media Literacy is Not an Option (pp 6-11) - Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share
- Oppositional and Activist New Media - Leah Lievrouw
- The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence - Henry Giroux
- Women's Documentary Filmmaking: The Personal is Political (pp 554-559) - Patricia Erens
- The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media - Stuart Hall
- How to Watch TV News - Postman & Powers
- Cinema Verite in America: Studies in Uncontrolled Documentary - Stephen Mamber
- Digital Video for Dummies - Martin Doucette
- Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos - Barry Hampe
- Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Recommended Readings
- Is a Cinema Studies Degree the New M.B.A.? - Elizabeth Van Ness
- The People’s Republic of YouTube - Patrick Goldstein
- Sessions I & II: Toronto 1990 PCA Meeting
- Media Education Foundation
- Looking at Aspects of a Media Text (end at "Lens Type", Also See Table on p 57) - Keith Selby and Ron Cowdery
- Digital Video: Filmmaker's Handbook - Marie D. Collier
- Women's Documentary Filmmaking: The Personal is Political (pp 559-564) - Patricia Erens
- High School - Thomas R. Atkins
- Women Directors Give Themselves a Break - Susan Carpenter
- Harlan County, U.S.A. - Gary Crowdus
- Harlan County, U.S.A. - Nicolaus Mills
- Union Maids - Linda Gordon
- Creating New Spaces in Third Cinema - Loran Marsan
- Rooting for Betty - by Mary Beltrán
- Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images - Patricia Hill Collins
- The Gaze as Theoretical Touchstone - Corinn Columpar