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. 38-92.

Kuleshov, L. Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleshov. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974; pp. 183-195 & 127-130.

Isenhour, J.P. The Effects of Context and Order in Film Editing. AV Communications Review, 23 (1); pp. 69-80.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 155-248.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 249-290.

Metz, C. Film language: a semiotics of the cinema. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991; pp. 92-146.

Eco, U. Articulations of the Cinematic Code. in Nichols, B. ed., University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976; pp. 590-607.

Barthes, R. Action Sequences. in Strelka, J. ed., Patterns of Literary Style. State University of Pennsylvania Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1971; pp. 5-14.

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

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.

No readings assigned for this class.

Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill, New York, 2001; pp. 291-326.

No readings assigned for this class.

No readings assigned for this class.

Winograd, T. and Flores, F. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Ablex Publication Corp., Norword, New Jersey, 1986; pp. 83-92.

G. Ifrah, The universal history of computing : from the abacus to the quantum computer. New York: John Wiley, 2001; pp. 272-295.

RECOMMENDED: Hillis, W.D. The pattern on the stone : the simple ideas that make computers work. Perseus Books, New York, 1999; pp. vii-59.

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.

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

K. Minami, A. Akutsu, H. Hamada, and Y. Tomomura, "Video Handling with Music and Speech Detection," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 5, 1998; pp. 17-25.

RECOMMENDED: Spevak, Christian and Favreau, Emmanuel, Sound Spotter - A Prototype System for Content-Based Audio Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-02). Hamburg, 2002.

RECOMMENDED: Tzanetakis, George and Cook, Perry, Automatic Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals. In Proc. International Symposium for Audio Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2001) Bloomington, USA, October 2001.

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.

No readings assigned for this class.

No readings assigned -- SPRING BREAK!

No readings assigned -- SPRING BREAK!

Davenport, G., Aguierre-Smith, T.G. and Pincever, N. Cinematic Primitives for Multimedia. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 11 (4); pp. 67-75.

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., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 1995; pp. 854-866.

No readings assigned for this class.

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.

Gordon, Rich, The Meanings and Implications of Convergence. In Medill (www.medill.northwestern.edu), Evanston, IL, Fall/Winter 2002.

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.

No readings assigned for this class.

No readings assigned for this class.

L. Rutledge, "Multimedia Standards: Building Blocks of the Web," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 8, 2001; pp. 13-15.

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.

Bush, V. As We May Think. Atlantic Monthly, 176 (July); pp. 85-112.

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.

Davis, M. From Pirates to Patriots: Fair Use for Digital Media. IEEE MultiMedia, 9 (4); pp. 4-7.

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

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.

Barry, B. and Davenport, G. Why Commonsense for Video Production?, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002; pp. 1-4.

Davis, M. Editing Out Editing: New Paradigms for Computational Media Production. IEEE MultiMedia, Spring 2003; pp. 1-18.

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.

No readings assigned for this class.

No readings assigned for this class.