Sol Worth

Biographic Data

ID85163
NAMESol Worth
GIVEN NAMESSol
FAMILY NAMEWorth
SIGNATUREWORTH S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS45
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
H-INDEX3

  • Studying Visual Communication

    Larry Gross, SolHG Worth et al.BOOKStudying Visual Communication1981

    Preface Introduction: Sol Worth and the Study of One: The Development of a Semiotic of Film Two: A Semiotic of Ethnographic Film Three: Toward an Anthropological Politics of Symbolic Forms Four: The Uses of Film in Education and Five: Symbolic Strategies (with Larry Gross) Six: Seeing Metaphor as Caricature Seven: Pictures Can't Say Ain't Eight: Margaret Mead and the Shift from Visual to the Anthropology of Communication Appendix: An American Com…

  • Margaret Mead and the Shift from "Visual Anthropology" to the "Anthropology of Visual Communication

    Open AccessSol WorthARTICLEStudies in Visual Communication1980Cited by: 14

  • Man is Not a Bird

    Open AccessSol WorthARTICLESemiotica1978Cited by: 1

  • Symbolic Strategies

    Open AccessSol Worth, Larry GrossARTICLEJournal of Communication1974

    Journal Article Symbolic Strategies Get access Sol Worth, Sol Worth 1Sol Worth is Professor and Larry Gross is Associate Profcssor of Communications at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Larry Gross Larry Gross 1Sol Worth is Professor and Larry Gross is Associate Profcssor of Communications at the Annenberg School of Communications, University…

  • Seeing Metaphor as Caricature

    Sol WorthARTICLENew Literary History1974Cited by: 1

  • Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology

    Sol Worth, John AdairBOOKThrough Navajo eyes1972

    Originally published in 1972, this pioneering book has become a classic in visual anthropology. Worth and Adair set out to answer the question, What would happen if someone from a culture that makes and uses motion pictures taught people who have never made or used motion pictures to do so for the first time? They taught filmmaking and editing to a group of six Navajos in Pinetree, Arizona. This book explains what happened, what they and the Nava…

  • You Are on Indian Land. Produced by George STONEY

    Open AccessSol WorthARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1972Cited by: 3References: 5

  • Navajo Filmmakers

    Open AccessSol Worth, John AdairARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1970Cited by: 15References: 10

    This paper is a report of research in visual (film) communication investigating questions in anthropology and communication. Six Navajos, aged 17–25, and one monolingual, aged 55, living on the reservation were taught only the technology of a 16mm movie camera and splicer and were asked to make films about “anything you want to.” We review the theoretical questions underlying the research, describe our method of teaching, and analyze the films th…

  • The Developement of a Semiotic of Film

    Open AccessSol WorthARTICLESemiotica1969Cited by: 2

    ERRS Price MF -SOSO NC -$320 Descriptors -Avdiovisual Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer). Comwanication Problems. *Fla .Production. *Films, Film Study, Imagery, Linguistic Theory. *Nonverbal Communication. *Paralinguistic:. *Semiotics. Sign Language, Symbolic Language. Visual Arts. Visual Stimuli The process of film making can be thought of as beginning with a person's feeling or concern about something. To communicate this feeling t…

  • The Navajo as Filmmaker: A Brief Report of Research in the Cross-Cultural Aspects of Film Communication1

    Open AccessJohn Adair, Sol WorthARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1967Cited by: 9References: 2