Mining the home movie : excavations in histories and memories / edited by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ishizuka, Karen L.

Zimmermann, Patricia Rodden.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amateur films--History and criticism.

Amateur films.

Film archives.

Physical Description:

xix, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Summary:

In this first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, "Mining the Home Movie "makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home movie-making. These essays boldly combine primary research, archival collections, critical analyses, filmmakers' own stories, and new theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. Editors Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann have fashioned a groundbreaking volume that identifies home movies as vital methods of visually preserving history. The essays cover an enormous range of subject matter, defining an important genre of film studies and establishing the home movie as an invaluable tool for extracting historical and social insights.

Notes:

Outgrowth of an international symposium at the Getty Center, Los Angeles in 1998, called The past as present: the home movie as cinema of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-307) and index.

Includes filmorgaphy and videography: pages 289-297.

ISBN:

9780520230873

0520230876

9780520248076

0520248074

OCLC:

74568929