Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Underwood, IV, George Milton
Author's Email Address	gentry@stanfordalumni.org
URN	etd-08292007-225349
Title	CAPTURING NEW COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY IN DIGITAL FILMMAKING AS ETHNOGRAPHY
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Community Research and Action
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Joseph Cunningham Committee Chair William Partridge Committee Member
Keywords	filmmaking ethnographic film visual ethnography ethnography qualitative research methods
Date of Defense	2007-08-30
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis examines the case of New Community Church, a digital film made by the author, from the perspective of ethnographic research. The case study shows how ethnographic process involves movement from a formative theory about a subject, into the field to collect anecdotal research data, about that subject, and finally to a grounded theory based on that data, which is in turn presented to an audience. In the case study it is shown that the author’s filmmaking process follows all parts of this process, and the argument is made that the process should thus be considered ethnographic research.
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