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Title

Amateur filmmaking : the home movie, the archive, the web / edited by Laura Rascaroli and Gwenda Young, with Barry Monahan.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Rascaroli, Laura
• Monahan, Barry
• Young, Gwenda

Description

xiv, 375 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"With the advent of digital filmmaking and critical recognition of the relevance of self expression, first-person narratives, and personal practices of memorialization, interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger. Bringing together key scholars in the field, and revealing the rich variety of amateur filmmaking--from home movies of Imperial India and film diaries of life in contemporary China, to the work of leading auteurs such as Joseph Morder and Peter Forgacs--Amateur Filmmaking highlights the importance of amateur cinema as a core object of critical interest across an array of disciplines. With contributions on the role of the archive, on YouTube, and on the impact of new technologies on amateur filmmaking, these essays offer the first comprehensive examination of this growing field"--

Subjects

• Documentary films > History and criticism
• Digital cinematography
• Amateur films > History and criticism
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-357) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Amateur Filmmaking: New Developments and Directions / Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young, Barry Monahan -- I. Reframing the home movie -- The Home Movie and Space of Communication / Roger Odin -- Home Movies and Amateur Film as National Cinema / Liz Czach -- The Photographic Hangover: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of the Postwar 8mm Home Movie / Maija Howe -- Amateur Film, Automobility and the Cinematic Aesthetics of Leisure / Mark Neumann -- II. Private reels, historiographical concerns -- Cinemas of Catastrophe and Continuity: Mapping Out Twentieth-Century Amateur Practices of Intentional History-Making in Northern England / Heather Norris Nicholson -- Glimpses of a Hidden History: Exploring Irish Amateur Collections, 1930-1970 / Gwenda Young -- Uncensored British Imperial Politics in Late Colonial Home Movies: Memsahibs, Indian Bearers and Chinese Communist Insurgents / Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes -- The Amateur Film: From Artifact to Anecdote / Karen Lury -- Starring Sally Peshlakai: Rewriting the Script for Tad Nichols's 1939 Navajo Rug Weaving / Janna Jones -- III. Nonfictional recontextualizations -- Change of Scale: Home Movies as Microhistory in Documentary Films / Efrén Cuevas -- Creating Historiography: Alan Gilsenan's Formal Reframing of Amateur Archival Footage in Home Movie Nights / Barry Monahan -- "That Would Be Wrong": Errol Morris and His Use of Home Movies (As Metalanguages) in Feature Documentaries / Stefano Odorico -- IV. Amateur auteur -- "I am a Time Archaeologist": Some Reflections on the Filmmaking Practice of Péter Forgács / Richard Kilborn -- Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Péter Forgács's Private Hungary / Ruth Balint -- Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, or Morder's Amateur Toolkit / Dominique Bluher -- Joseph Morder, the "Filmateur": An Interview with Joseph Morder / Dominique Bluher -- Working at Home: Tarnation, Amateur Authorship, and Self-inscription in the Digital Age / Laura Rascaroli -- V. New directions: the digital age -- Saving Private Reels: Archival Practices and Digital Memories (Formerly Known as Home Movies) in the Digital Age / Susan Aasman -- The Home Movie Archive Live / Patricia R. Zimmerman -- An Inward Gaze at Home: Amateur First Person DV Documentary Filmmaking in Twenty-First Century China / Tianqi Yu -- Shooting for Profit: The Monetary Logic of the YouTube Home Movie / Lauren S. Berliner -- Home Movies in the Age of Web 2.0: The Case of "Star Wars Kid" / Abigail Keating -- Towards Mobile Filmmaking 2.0: Amateur Filmmaking as an Alternative Cultural Practice / Max Schleser.

Call Number

MFL 14-3193

ISBN

• 9781441139054 (hardback)
• 1441139052 (hardback)
• 9781441191496 (paperback)
• 1441191496 (paperback)

LCCN

2013044908

OCLC

866252402

Title

Amateur filmmaking : the home movie, the archive, the web / edited by Laura Rascaroli and Gwenda Young, with Barry Monahan.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-357) and index.

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Added Author

Rascaroli, Laura, editor.

Monahan, Barry, editor.

Young, Gwenda, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 14-3193