An internationally recognized center devoted to collecting, preserving, documenting and disseminating a broad range of ethnographic and anthropological moving image materials.

Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing and Manchester University Library

sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/visanth.html

A site containing articles and reports.

British Universities Film and Video Council

www.avance.niss.ac.uk - alternatively www.bufvc.ac.uk

A database containing records of audio-visual programmes that have been selected for their usefulness in higher education. It also contains details of distributors' catalogues.

Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology

les.man.ac.uk/visual_anth/

The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology is part of the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. With the aid of contributory funding from Granada Television, it has been in operation since 1987. Its aim is to promote the use of film, video and other visual media within anthropology.

The Nordic Anthropological Film Association

www.sv.uio.no/ima/etm/nafa.html

A good visual anthropology weblinkpage is available

www.sv.uio.no/ima/etm/nafa/links.html

NAFA-Network

www.sv.uio.no/ima/etm/nafanet/

The newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association published 6-8 times a year. It is available in several formats: as e-mail, Fax, or printed copy in addition to the web version. The newsletter dates back to 1994 and most issues are available on the web, though there is a gap in the period 1995-1996. The newsletter has a calendar of events in the field of visual anthropology, general announcements and notices of developments on the web. It also has a notice-board in which users can post notes and queries, including the search for films or film footage.

Visual Anthropology Webring

http://nav.webring.org/cgi-bin/navcgi?ring=visualanthro;list

Penn State Media & Technology Support Services

ttp://www.medianet.libraries.psu.edu/

An excellent database of all sorts of films and videos including much ethnographic film. Also available at the University of Michigan at http://141.211.175.29/htbin/wwform/198/wwk770

The Lacuna Project

www.san.ed.ac.uk/lacuna

The Haddon Catalogue

www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html

The Haddon database includes many films which are more in the genre of the documentary, with the potential for ethnographic interest.

British Film Institute

http://www.bfi.org.uk/

Documentary Educational Resources (DER)

http://www.der.org

Writings on Ethnographic Film

University of Southern California Visual www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/ur14.htm A general anthropology website with much documentation on ethnographic film.

Marcus Banks. Interactive Multimedia and anthropology - a sceptical view, June 1994 www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/marcus.banks.01.html

Jay Ruby. The Death of Ethnographic Film. astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/aaa/ruby.html

--- 1996 Visual Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, editors. New York: Henry Holt and Company, vol. 4:1345-1351 www.temple.edu/anthro/ruby/cultanthro.html

AAA Visual Anthropology Review etext.virginia.edu/VAR/

This is the official publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association

Ethnographic Film Festivals

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Visual Anthropology Network www.iwf.gwdg.de/easa/fest/fest.htm

1-11 Jun 2000 Possessing Vision. Free Screenings, Documentary and Delirium (Film Season), and The Cinema of Jean Rouch (conference): at the Architectural Association and the ICA, London http://www.londonconsortium.com/rouch.htm

Visual anthropology events and festivals

http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/ur17.htm

Ethnic Representation in Film

lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html

Recommended site - Videographies providing a broad sampling of ethnic and racial representations in the movies over the last century. These films include works of mainstream Hollywood, as well as historical and current movies by film makers of color.

Film in General

UCLA Arts Department Selected Internet Sources in Film - www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/websites/wwwmov.htm

University of Pennsylvania Library Film Studies page - www.library.upenn.edu/resources/subject/humanities/film/film.html

Film Festivals

Contains comprehensive list of film festivals and due dates sorted by region www.marklitwak.com/filmfes.htm

Other

Pacho Lane - Ethnoscope Film & Video
http://www.docfilm.com

EthnoFilmLink