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Body and Mind: The Rhetoric of Gesture

PWR 1SG - Fall 2012 - Instructor: Streit, S.
Last Updated: 25-Mar-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 1SG:  Body and Mind: The Rhetoric of Gesture.  Topics include gesture, facial, and other bodily expressions, and how they contribution to human communication.

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Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The international encyclopedia of communication / edited by Wolfgang Donsbach.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » P87.5 .I58 2008 V.1
Embodied interaction : language and body in the material world / edited by Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Green Library » Stacks » P40 .E43 2011
Gesture : visible action as utterance / Adam Kendon.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Green Library » Stacks » P117 .K46 2004
IBSS extra [electronic resource] : the international bibliography of the social sciences.
Norwood, MA : SilverPlatter Information,
Nonverbal behavior in interpersonal relations / Virginia Peck Richmond, James C. McCroskey, and Mark Hickson, III.
6th ed. Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2008.
Green Library » Stacks » BF637 .N66 R53 2008

Searchworks Catalog Search Term: Gesture

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  1. Migrations of gesture

    Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors. 2008

    Green Library » Stacks » PN2071 .G4 M45 2008

  2. Gesture and the dynamic dimension of language : essays in honor of David McNeill

    edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell, Elena T. Levy. 2007

    Green Library » Stacks » P117 .G4685 2007

  3. Gesture : visible action as utterance

    Adam Kendon. 2004

    Green Library » Stacks » P117 .K46 2004

  4. Les gestes

    Vilém Flusser ; texte établi par Marc Partouche ; postface de Louis Bec.. 1999

    Green Library » Stacks » P117 .F58 1999

Selected Image & Photograph resources

These resources are open access. They do not require a Stanford subscription.

Library of Congress's Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Africa South of the Sahara: Photographs
Blinkx TV: watch Full Episodes of TV Shows Online
Moving Image Archive (from the Internet Archive)

This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

Preserves over 4000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries and other programs produced locally in the Bay Area and Northern California between 1939-2005.

Suggested Databases

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles about Communication, Images & Photography

Artbibliographies modern.
Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Santa Barbara, Calif., Clio Press [etc.]
Art & Architecture Library » Reference (non-circulating) » Z5935 .L2 V.4:NO.2 1973
Communication studies [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Ethnographic video online [electronic resource].
[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, c2010-
Communication & mass media complete [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, MA] : EBSCO Pub., c2004-

Databases for articles on Theater and Performance

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  1. Colonial film [electronic resource] : moving images of the British empire

    Holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies; over 150 films are available for viewing on...

  2. Dance in video [electronic resource].

    Searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of th...

  3. Music & dance reference. The online bibliography [electronic resource].

    The database is a bibliography of music and dance bibliographies and reference sources with direct links to online resources.

  4. Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive [electronic resource]

    produced by Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. 2011

    SUL » Stacks » (No call number)

    Online exhibit of brief video performance excerpts spanning from 1930s dance pioneers to today's most exciting artists recorded at Jacob'...

  5. Film literature index

    Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » Z5784 .M9 F53 ...

  6. Film & television literature index [electronic resource].

    "Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing...