Amateur filmmaking : the home movie, the archive, the web
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Amateur filmmaking : the home movie, the archive, the web
Bloomsbury, 2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young, Barry Monahan: Introduction. Amateur Filmmaking: New Developments and Directions
SECTION ONE: REFRAMING THE HOME MOVIE
1. Roger Odin: The Home Movie and Space of Communication
2. Liz Czach: Home Movies and Amateur Film as National Cinema
3. Maija Howe: The Photographic Hangover: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of the Postwar 8mm Home Movie
4. Mark Neumann: Amateur Film, Automobility and the Cinematic Aesthetics of Leisure
SECTION TWO: PRIVATE REELS, HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CONCERNS
5. Heather Norris Nicholson: Cinemas of Catastrophe and Continuity: Mapping Out Twentieth-Century Amateur Practices of Intentional History-Making in Northern England
6. Gwenda Young: Glimpses of a Hidden History: Exploring Irish Amateur Collections, 1930-1970
7. Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes: Uncensored British Imperial Politics in Late Colonial Home Movies: Memsahibs, Indian Bearers and Chinese Communist Insurgents
8. Karen Lury: The Amateur Film: From Artifact to Anecdote
9. Janna Jones: Starring Sally Peshlakai: Rewriting the Script for Tad Nichols's 1939 Navajo Rug Weaving
SECTION THREE: NONFICTIONAL RECONTEXTUALISATIONS
10. Efren Cuevas: Change of Scale: Home Movies as Microhistory in Documentary Films
11. Barry Monahan: Creating Historiography: Alan Gilsenan's Formal Reframing of Amateur Archival Footage in Home Movie Nights
12. Stefano Odorico: "That Would Be Wrong": Errol Morris and His Use of Home Movies (As Metalanguages) in Feature Documentaries
SECTION FOUR: AMATEUR AUTEUR
13. Richard Kilborn: "I am a Time Archaeologist": Some Reflections on the Filmmaking Practice of Peter Forgacs
14. Ruth Balint: Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Peter Forgacs's Private Hungary
15. Dominique Bluher: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, or Morder's Amateur Toolkit
16. Dominique Bluher: Joseph Morder, the "Filmateur": An Interview with Joseph Morder
17. Laura Rascaroli: Working at Home: Tarnation, Amateur Authorship, and Self-inscription in the Digital Age
SECTION FIVE: NEW DIRECTIONS: THE DIGITAL AGE
18. Susan Aasman: Saving Private Reels: Archival Practices and Digital Memories (Formerly Known as Home Movies) in the Digital Age
19. Patricia R. Zimmerman: The Home Movie Archive Live
20. Tianqi Yu: An Inward Gaze at Home: Amateur First Person DV Documentary Filmmaking in Twenty-First Century China
21. Lauren S. Berliner: Shooting for Profit: The Monetary Logic of the YouTube Home Movie
22. Abigail Keating: Home Movies in the Age of Web 2.0: The Case of "Star Wars Kid"
23. Max Schleser: Towards Mobile Filmmaking 2.0: Amateur Filmmaking as an Alternative Cultural Practice
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