A Listing of Sol Worth's Works

1958 Letter from Finland. The American Scholar 27(3): 343-354.

1963 The Film Workshop. Film Comment 1 (5):54-58.

1964 Public Administration and the Documentary Film. Perspectives in Administration, Journal of Municipal Association for Management and Administration City of New York, Vol.1. Pp. 19-25.

1965 Film Communication: A Study of the Reactions to Some Student Films. Screen Education (July/August): 3-19.

1966 Film as Non-Art: An Approach to the Study of Film. The American Scholar 35(2):322-334. [Reprinted in Perspectives on the Study of Film, J. S. Katz, ea., Boston: Little, Brown, Pp.180-199,1971.]

1967 (with John Adair) The Navajo as Filmmaker: A Report of Some Recent Research in the Cross-Cultural Aspects of Film Communication. American Anthropologist 69:76-78.

1968 Cognitive Aspects of Sequence in Visual Communication. Audio-Visual Communication Review 16(2):1-25.

1969 The Relevance of Research. Journal of University Film Association 21 (3):81 -84.

1969 The Development of a Semiotic of Film. Semiotica: International Journal of Semiotics 1 (3):282-321.

1970 Navajo Filmmakers. American Anthropologist 72 9-34. [Reprinted in Worlds Apart: The Sociology of Education, London: Cassell, Collier and Macmillan 1975]

1972 Toward the Development of a Semiotic of Ethnographic Film. PIEF Newsletter 3(3):8-12.

1972 Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Bloomington: Indian; University Press. [Paperback edition 1975. To be reprinted by the University of New Mexico Press with a forward and afterward by Richard Chalfen.]

1973 Toward an Anthropological Politics of Symbolic Form. In Reinventing Anthropology. Dell Hymes, ed New York: Pantheon Books. Pp. 335-364.

1974 The Use of Film in Education and Communication. In Communication, Media and Education. D. R. Olson, ed. 73rd Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Pp. 271-302.

1974 (with Larry Gross) Symbolic Strategies. Journal of Communication 24(4):27-39.

1974 Introduction to the Anthropology of Visual Communications. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 1(1):1-2.

1974 Seeing Metaphor as Caricature. New Literary History, Vol. Vl. Pp. 195-209.

1975 Pictures Can't Say Ain't. Versus, Vol. 12. Milan: Bompiani. Pp. 85-108.

1976 Doing the Anthropology of Visual Communication. In Doing the Anthropology of Visual Communication. Working Papers in Culture end Communication 1(2):2-20. Department of Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia.

1975 Introduction to Erving Goffman's Gender Advertisements. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 3(2):65-68.

1977 Margaret Mead and the Shift from Visual Anthropology to the Anthropology of Visual Communication. Ruth Bunzell, ed. AAAS, Margaret Mead Festschrift

1978 Man Is Not a Bird. Semiotica, International Journal of Semiotics

Films and Photographs

Still photographs appeared in all major publications such as New Yorker, Life, McCall's, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue.

Motion picture commercials and advertising films appeared on all major national TV stations.

Produced, photographed and edited four 20-minute films on art subjects.

Produced 50 documentary films.

Directed Teatteri, a 25-minute film on the Finnish National Theatre. Chosen for permanent collection of documentary film, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and cited at Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals, 1958.

Unpublished Papers

1977 Toward an Ethnographic Semiotic. Paper delivered to introduce conference on Utilisation de L'ethnologie par le Cinema/Utilisation du Cinema par L'ethnologie, Paris, UNESCO, February 1977. (Was schedule to appear in Proceedings, UNESCO but never completed)

1977 (with Jay Ruby) Biography, Portraits, and Life History in Film. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Houston.

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