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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rascaroli, Laura, editor.

Monahan, Barry, editor.

Young, Gwenda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amateur films--History and criticism.

Amateur films.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Digital cinematography.

Physical Description:

xiv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Amateur Filmmaking: New Developments and Directions / Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young, Barry Monahan

SECTION ONE: REFRAMING THE HOME MOVIE 1. The Home Movie and Space of Communication / Roger Odin

2. Home Movies and Amateur Film as National Cinema / Liz Czach

3. The Photographic Hangover: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of the Postwar 8mm Home Movie / Maija Howe

4. Amateur Film, Automobility and the Cinematic Aesthetics of Leisure / Mark Neumann

SECTION TWO: 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

6. Glimpses of a Hidden History: Exploring Irish Amateur Collections, 1930-1970 / Gwenda Young

7. Uncensored British Imperial Politics in Late Colonial Home Movies: Memsahibs, Indian Bearers and Chinese Communist Insurgents / Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

8. The Amateur Film: From Artifact to Anecdote / Karen Lury

9. Starring Sally Peshlakai: Rewriting the Script for Tad Nichols's 1939 Navajo Rug Weaving / Janna Jones

SECTION THREE: NONFICTIONAL RECONTEXTUALISATIONS 10. Change of Scale: Home Movies as Microhistory in Documentary Films / Efrén Cuevas

11. Creating Historiography: Alan Gilsenan's Formal Reframing of Amateur Archival Footage in Home Movie Nights / Barry Monahan

12. "That Would Be Wrong": Errol Morris and His Use of Home Movies (As Metalanguages) in Feature Documentaries / Stefano Odorico

SECTION FOUR: AMATEUR AUTEUR 13. "I am a Time Archaeologist": Some Reflections on the Filmmaking Practice of Péter Forgács / Richard Kilborn

14. Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Péter Forgács's Private Hungary / Ruth Balint

15. Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, or Morder's Amateur Toolkit / Dominique Bluher

16. Joseph Morder, the "Filmateur": An Interview with Joseph Morder / Dominique Bluher

17. Working at Home: Tarnation, Amateur Authorship, and Self-inscription in the Digital Age / Laura Rascaroli

SECTION FIVE: NEW DIRECTIONS: THE DIGITAL AGE 18. Saving Private Reels: Archival Practices and Digital Memories (Formerly Known as Home Movies) in the Digital Age / Susan Aasman

19. The Home Movie Archive Live / Patricia R. Zimmerman

20. An Inward Gaze at Home: Amateur First Person DV Documentary Filmmaking in Twenty-First Century China / Tianqi Yu

21. Shooting for Profit: The Monetary Logic of the YouTube Home Movie / Lauren S. Berliner

22. Home Movies in the Age of Web 2.0: The Case of "Star Wars Kid" / Abigail Keating

23. Towards Mobile Filmmaking 2.0: Amateur Filmmaking as an Alternative Cultural Practice / Max Schleser.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781441139054

1441139052

9781441191496

1441191496

OCLC:

866252402

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