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:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 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 moviemaking. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Home Movie Movement: Excavations, Artifacts, Minings

1. Remaking Home Movies

2. The Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution

3. Wittgenstein Tractatus: Personal Reflections on Home Movies

4. La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

5. Ordinary Film: Péter Forgács's The Maelstrom

6. The Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

7. 90 Miles: The Politics and Aesthetics of Personal Documentary

8. The Florida Moving Image Archive

9. Something Strong Within: A Visual Essay

10. Something Strong Within as Historical Memory

11. The Moving Image Archive of the Japanese American National Museum

12. The Home Movie and the National Film Registry: The Story of Topaz

13. The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute

14. Home Away from Home: Private Films from the Dutch East Indies

15. The Library of Congress

16. Deteriorating Memories: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Home Movies in India

17. The Movie Queen: Northeast Historic Film

18. The WPA Film Library

19. Mule Racing in the Mississippi Delta

20. The Academy Film Archive

21. "As If by Magic": Authority, Aesthetics, and Visions of the Workplace in Home Movies, circa 1931-1949

22. The New Zealand Film Archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua

23. Working People, Topical Films, and Home Movies: The Case of the North West Film Archive

24. The Oregon State Historical Society's Moving Image Archives

25. Reflections on the Family Home Movie as Document: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach

26. The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

27. Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future

Selected Filmography and Videography

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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 (p. 299-307) and index.

Includes filmorgaphy and videography: p. 289-297.

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ISBN:

9786612358456

9781282358454

1282358456

9780520939684

0520939689

OCLC:

723943549