No readings assigned for the first class.

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 & 155-164.

Saussure, F.D., Bally, C., Sechehaye, A. and Riedlinger, A. Course in general linguistics. Open Court, LaSalle, Ill., 1986; pp. 6-17, 65-91, & 101-134.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 47-105.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 175-184 & 207-293.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 294-346.

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.

Eisenstein, S.M. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, 1949; pp. 45-63.

RECOMMENDED: Ducrot, O., T. Todorov (Contributor), C. Porter (Translator). Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. Johns Hopkins University Press, September, 1994.

RECOMMENDED: Stam, R., Burgoyne, R., Lewis-Flitterman, S. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Poststructuralism and Beyond (Sightlines). Routledge, May 1992.

RECOMMENDED: Rosenblum, R., Karen, Ph.D., R. When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story. DaCapo Press, May 1988.

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. 92-146.

Burch, N. Theory of film practice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1981; pp. 3-16.

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.

Rubin, M. and Diamond, R. Nonlinear: A Field Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing. Triad Publishing, Gainesville, Florida, 2000; pp. 151-166.

Ascher, S. and Pincus, E. The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age. Plume, New York, 1999; pp. 166-175.

Rubin, M. and Diamond, R. Nonlinear: A Field Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing. Triad Publishing, Gainesville, Florida, 2000; pp. 145-150.

Ascher, S. and Pincus, E. The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age. Plume, New York, 1999; pp. 260-273.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 347-388.

Zettl, H. Video Basics 3. Wadsworth, Belmont, CA, 2001; pp. 26-42.

Manovich, L. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press, Cambrodge, Massachusetts, 2001; pp. 19-61.

Bloch, G.R. From Concepts to Film Sequences, Yale University Department of Computer Science, 1987; pp. 1-8.

Dorai, C. and Venkatesh, S. Computational Media Aesthetics: Finding Meaning Beautiful. IEEE Multimedia, 8 (4); pp. 10-12.

RECOMMENDED: Davis, M. and Levitt, D. Time-Based Media Processing System (US Patent 6,243,087), Interval Research Corporation, USA, 2001; pp. 1-20.

Davenport, G., Aguierre-Smith, T.G. and Pincever, N. Cinematic Primitives for Multimedia. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 11 (4); pp. 67-74.

Davis, M. Media Streams: An Iconic Visual Language for Video Representation. in Baecker, R.M., Grudin, J., Buxton, W.A.S. and Greenberg, S. eds. Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 1995; pp. 854-866.

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.

Foote, J. "An Overview of Audio Information Retrieval," Multimedia Systems, vol. 7, 1999; pp. 1-18.

Gordon, Rich, The Meanings and Implications of Convergence. The Medillian Online (Fall/Winter 2002); pp. 12-13.

M. Christel, S. Stevens, T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, and H. Wactlar, "Techniques For The Creation And Exploration Of Digital Video Libraries," in Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 2, B. Furht, Ed. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996; pp. 1-33.

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.

Jenkins, H. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. Routledge, New York, 1992; pp. 223-249.

Adobe Systems Adobe Premiere 6.5: Classroom In A Book. Adobe, Berkeley, California, 2003; pp. 11-46.

Virage Virage SmartEncode™ Process Technical Overview Version 6.0, Virage, San Mateo, California, 2003; pp. 1-35.

Kuchinsky, A., Pering, C., Creech, M.L., Freeze, D., Serra, B. and Gwizdka, J., FotoFile: A Consumer Multimedia Organization and Retrieval System. in, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1999), ACM Press; pp. 496-503.

H. D. Wactlar, M. G. Christel, Y. Gong, and A. Hauptmann, "Lessons Learned from the Creation and Deployment of a Terabyte Digital Video Library," IEEE Computer, vol. 32, 1999; pp. 66-73.

Tonomura, Y., Akutsu, A., Otsuji, K. and Sadakata, T., VideoMAP and VideoSpaceIcon: Tools for Anatomizing Content. in, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993), ACM Press; pp. 131-136.

J. M. Martínez, R. Koenen, and F. Pereira, "MPEG-7: The Generic Multimedia Content Description Interface, Part 1," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 9, 2002; pp. 78-87.

J. M. Martínez, "MPEG-7: Overview of MPEG-7 Description Tools, Part 2," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 9, 2002; pp. 83-93.

Nyce, J.M. and Kahn, P. (eds.) From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine. Academic Press, Boston, 1991; pp. 81-110.

McLuhan, M. Understanding media : the extensions of man. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1994; pp. 3-21.

Davis, M. Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology. Communications of the ACM (50th Anniversary Edition), 40 (2); pp. 42-48.

Chang, S.-F. The Holy Grail of Content-Based Media Analysis. IEEE MultiMedia, 9 (2); pp. 6-10.

Nack, F. and Lindley, C., Production and Maintenance Environments for Interactive Audio-Visual Stories. in, (Los Angeles, California, 2000), ACM Press; pp. 21-24.

Nack, F. and Putz, W., Designing Annotation Before It's Needed. in, (Ottawa, Canada, 2001), ACM Press; pp. 251-259.

Davis, M. "Active Capture: Integrating Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Vision/Audition to Automate Media Capture," 2003; pp. 1-4.

Barry, B. and Davenport, G. Documenting Life: Videography and Common Sense. in 2003 IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo Special Session on Moving from Features to Semantics Using Computational Media Aesthetics, (Baltimore, MD, 2003); pp. 1-4.

Davis, M. Editing Out Video Editing, IEEE MultiMedia, 10 (2). April-June 2003; pp. 54-64.

Stern, L. A Brief History of Mad Libs, Penguin Putnam Inc., 2001; pp. 1-2.

Varian, H.R. The Law of Recombinant Growth. The Industry Standard; pp. 1-2.