List of Written Materials on this Website
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John Bishop's Films
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• 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)
  Memory, Innovation and Emergent Ethnicities: The Creolization of an Indo-Trinidadian Performance by Frank Korom (PDF) related to Hosay Trinidad
• Article about the film Yoyo Man (PDF)
• Land Where the Blues Began Filmmakers Newsletter article. (PDF)

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• 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)
• Films of Bess Lomax Hawes Study Guide

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• 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

General Film, Video, Visual Anthropology by John Bishop

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• 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)
• 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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  By Other People
  
• 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)
• Excerpt from Interview with Ross McElwee about shooting with John Marshall on N!ai.
• Passing Girl:Riverside transcript of a film by Kwame Braun.
  
  Other Writings
• Cecily Parsily Runs Away an unpublished novel written in 1971 by John Bishop (PDF)
• Cat's Eye: the Cosmic Perspective by Amanda Bishop (PDF)
• An Ever-Changing Place a year among snow monkeys and herders in Yolmo, Nepal; a book by John & Naomi Bishop (PDF)