David Redmon, Ph.D. email/ [email protected], website/ www.carnivalesquefilms.com
EDUCATION Specializations: Video Ethnography, Social Theory and Criminology Areas of research specialty: Ethnography and Visual Sociology
2010-2011 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Lisa Goldberg Fellow.
2010-2011 Film Studies Center Fellow at Harvard University (specialization in ethnographic media).
2001 Ph.D. Sociology. University at Albany, State University of New York. Dissertation: Mardi Gras: Cultural Deviance, Public Sexuality, and the Body. Dissertation Committee: Richard Lachmann (Chair).
1997 M.A. Sociology - Texas Woman’s University. Thesis: Informal Social Control, Low-Self-Control, and Public Sexual Deviance at Mardi Gras
1995 B.A. Sociology - Texas University.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Beads, Bodies, and Trash: Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras. 2016. (Routledge Press).
Video Ethnography (forthcoming, Routledge Press, January 2019).
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
2018. Introducing Video Ethnography into Festival Studies. (forthcoming in the Journal of Festival Studies).
2017. Documentary Criminology: Kamp Katrina as a Case Study in the “Routledge International of Visual Criminology.” Routledge Press.
2017. Green Cultural Criminology, Video Methods, and the Anthropocene: SANCTUARY as a Case Study. Deviant Behavior, Volume 39, Issue 4, 2018.
2016. Documentary Criminology: Girl Model as a Case Study. Crime, Media, Culture, Volume 13.
1 2015. SNOW-GAZING in Popular Culture as Everyday Life edited by Dennis Waskul and Phillip Vannini (Routledge Press, December 2015).
2014. Documentary Criminology: Expanding the Criminological Imagination with “Mardi Gras—Made in China” as a Case Study (23 Minutes). Societies 2015, 5(2), 425-441.
2014. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. Edited by Dan Miller. Chapter written titled, “Guy Debord.” Blackwell Publishers.
2011. The Kamp Katrina Project. Invisible Culture. Issue 16. Spring 2011.
2008. Making Mardi Gras: Made in China and Kamp Katrina. Visual Studies. Volume 23, No. 1. April.
2007. Handbook for Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Chapter written titled, “Guy Debord: Theoretician of the Spectacle.” Blackwell Publishers.
2003. Low Self-Control Theory at Mardi Gras: Critiquing the General Theory of Crime Within the Framework of Normative Deviance. Deviant Behavior. Volume 24, Number 3/July.
2003. Playful Deviance as an Urban Leisure Activity: Secret Selves, Self- Validation, and Entertaining Performances. Deviant Behavior. Volume 24, Number 1/January.
2002. Testing Informal Social Control Theory: Examining Lewd Behavior during Mardi Gras. Deviant Behavior. Volume 23, Issue 4/July.
2002. Spectacular Disenchantment: From the Festival to the Factory. Journal of Consumer Culture Newsletter. Vol. 2, Issue 5. December.
2002. Testing Informal Social Control Theory: Examining ‘Lewd Behavior’ During Mardi Gras. Deviant Behavior. Volume 23, Number 4/July.
2002. Deviant Pleasures, Deviant Riots. Adbusters. March 2002, Vol. 40.
2002. Book Review. Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. April 1, 2002. Vol. 35, Issue 1.
2001. Deviant Leisure and Carnival Riots. Journal of Consumer Culture Newsletter. Vol. 1, Issue 1. May.
Book Reviews
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Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime by Mike Presdee. Journal of Sociology in New Zealand.
Teaching experience
2014-current University of Kent, Cantrbury (UK) – permanent position Video Ethnography (undergraduate and post-graduate) Crime, Media and Society (2 modules)
2013-2014 Dawson College (Montreal, Quebec) Introduction to Sociology (4 classes) Introduction to Sociology: Visual Focus (2 courses) Social Problems (2 classes)
Spring 2013 Bard College at Simon’s Rock Scholar in Residence
Summer 2012 Massachusetts College of Art Seminar: Editing the Documentary
Fall 2007 Texas Christian University
Critical Criminology and Filmmaking (Seminar: special topics) Documentary Methods: Visualizing Ethnography (Seminar: special topics)
Spring 2005 St. Joseph’s College – Adjunct Sociology of Developing Countries
2005 – 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute Globalization (320) Sociology of Deviance (200) Methods of Analysis: Globalization and Documentary (430) Introduction to Sociology
2002 – 2003 Department of Organizational and Political Communication Emerson College. Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology Principles of Sociology (150) Deviance and Social Control (360) Special Topics: Globalization, Inequality, and Gender (306) Fall 2002 Principles of Sociology (150A)
3 Sociology of Everyday Life (320) Special Topics: Gender, Sexuality and Work (320)
2001 – 2002 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Gettysburg College, Visiting Assistant Professor. Spring 2002 Independent Study: Contemporary Social Theory (400) Introduction to Sociology (101) Self and Society (231) Seminar in Social Theory (310) Fall 2001 Introduction to Sociology (101) Deviance (212) Seminar in Globalization: Gender and Work (241)
1999-2001 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Southwestern University. Visiting Assistant Professor. Summer 2001 Special Topics in Social Theory: Sociology of Gender, the Body, and Images Social Problems across Cultures (313) Social Problems (113) Gender Relations and Sexuality (SOC and WST 233) Social Stratification (314) Fall 2000 Principles of Sociology (113) Deviance, Conformity, and Identity (213) Collective Behavior and Social Movements (443) Spring 2000 Social Patterns and Processes (113) Self and Society (263) Selected Topics in Globalization and Gender 313): Globalization, Carnivalesque, and Resistance Fall 1999 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Southwestern University. Visiting Instructor Social Patterns and Processes (113). Gender Relations and Sexuality (SOC and WST 233). Social Stratification (314).
Spring 1999 Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York Teaching and Research Assistant: Independent Research Project. Developed a qualitative project using data I collected during Mardi Gras.
Fall 1998 Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York Teaching Assistant: Sociology and Social Statistics (3000). Graded papers, tutored students, organized group meetings, and conducted weekly review sessions.
Spring 1998 Department of Sociology, Texas Woman’s University,
4 Criminology (3013). Social Data Analysis (3113). Texas Woman’s University (undergraduate research methodology course).
Spring 1997 Co-taught Introduction to Sociology, North Central Texas College
1997-98 Texas Woman’s University, Department of Sociology, Tutor. Assisted undergraduate students in theory and research methods.
Video Ethnographies, Documentaries, and Experimental Films Filmmaker / Director Mardi Gras: Made in China 2005 Mardi Gras: Made in China Theatre (adapted into a play in Germany) 2008 Kamp Katrina 2007 Intimidad 2008 Invisible Girlfriend 2009 Girl Model 2011 Downeast 2012 Kingdom of Animal 2012 Night Labor 2013 No Exit 2013 Choreography 2014 Sanctuary 2017 Do Donkeys Act? 2017 Lost and Found current
Awards/Official Selection/Theatrical/TV Broadcast
Mardi Gras: Made in China Selected Official Selections— Sundance Film Festival, Nominated for Grand Jury Prize 2005 (selected) Television Broadcast— Sundance Channel (US) 2006- 2007 The Documentary Channel (US) 2007- 2008 Link TV (US) 2007-2008 Free Speech TV (US) 2007- 2008 Current TV (US) 2007- 2008 NHK (Japan) 2007
5 Rialto Channel (NZ) 2007 VEA (Australia) 2007 Palador Pictures (India) 2007 Chanel 8 (Israel) 2007 TV Polska (Poland) 2007 TV Choice (UK) 2007 Qantas Inflight (Australia) 2007
Kamp Katrina Selected Official Selections— Museum of Modern Art, (New York) 2007 SXSW 2007 MOMA, NY, NY 2007 (selected) Television Broadcast— The Documentary Channel (US) 2007- 2008 Free Speech TV (US) 2007- 2008 Link TV (US) 2007-2008
Intimidad Official Selection— South by Southwest 2008 AFI Dallas 2008 MOMA, NYC 2008 (selected) Broadcast— Link TV 2008 Free Speech TV 2008
Invisible Girlfriend (selected) Selected Official Selections— Cinema on the Bayou 2009 Sarasota Film Festival 2009 Atlanta Film Festival 2009 Nashville Film Festival 2009 Independent Film Festival of Boston 2009 Maryland Film Festival 2009 (selected) Broadcast— Free Speech TV 2009 Documentary Channel 2009
Girl Model (2011) Toronto International Film Festival 2011 Sundance Institute Grant 2010 Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship 2010
6 Harvard Film Studies Fellowship Puffin Foundation Grant 2010 Cinereach Grant 2010 Independent Film Week Participant 2010 Chicken and Egg Grant 2011 Fledgling Fund 2011 (selected) Broadcast - POV (PBS), CBC, BBC, ARTE, DR 2012
Downeast (2012) Tribeca Film Festival 2012 Hot Docs Film Festival 2012 SilverDocs Film Festival 2012 Dok Leipzig, Germany 2012 CPH: DOX, Copenhagen 2012 Reykjavik Film Festival, Iceland 2012 LEF Foundation Grant Broadcast – PBS (America ReFramed, January 24, 2014)
Kingdom of Animal (2012) CPH:DOX (World Premiere) 2012
Night Labor (2013) Visions du Reel (World Premiere) 2013 Montreal International Film Festival 2013 Festival dei Popoli, Florence 2013
All remaining films premiered at Rotterdam, Sundance, and CPH:DOX Film Festivals
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