Global perspectives on amateur film histories and cultures / Edited by Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fibla-Gutiérrez, Enrique, editor.

Salazkina, Masha, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amateur films.

Amateur films--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 336 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Together, these essays shed new light on alternative cinema in a wide range of cities and countries where amateur films thrive in the shadow of commercial and conventional film industries.

Contents:

15. Early International Super 8 Film Festivals: The Case of Caracas 1976-1980

16. A Gift to Mother: "The Most Universally Appealing Kind of Film That Any Amateur Can Hope to Make"

17. Postcards from Yiddishland: Amateur Filmmaking and Vernacular Yiddish Culture

Index

11. The Videogiornale: Social Movements and Amateur Media Technologies in Bologna between the Late 1980s and theEarly 1990s

12. "A Vital Human Place" for the Counterculture: Fifth Estate and Amateur Film Culture in Detroit, 1965-1967

13. Ingvars Leitis's Subversive Ethnographic Documentaries,1975-1989: Cover Stories and National Representation in Soviet Latvia

Part IV. Transnational Networks: Amateur Cinema Travels

14. Worldly Matters: Distributed Histories of TunisianAmateur Cinema and the Screening ofNontheatrical Film

5. Seeking Advice: A Political Economy of Israeli Commemorative Home Videos

6. Amateur Film in the Factory: Forms and Functions ofAmateur Cinema in Corporate Media Culture

7. The Ambitions of Amateur Film in Vichy France

8. On the Amateur Origins of Fernando Birri's Documentary School of Santa Fe

Part III. Politics of Legitimization and Subversion

9 The Wind from the South: Experiences of Substandard Filmmaking in Galicia in the 1970s

10. Super 8 in Mexico

Cover

Title Page

Cotents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures

Part I. Medium Specificity and Expanded Media Ecologies

1. Understanding (Amateur) Cinema: Epistemology and Technology

2. Crossing the Amateur Line: The Lesson of Even-As You and I

3. "I Give You a Toast to the Pioneers!" The Movie MakerTen Best Video Competition 1982-1983

4. From Insiders to Outsiders: Tracing Amateurism in Chinese Independent Documentary of the 1990s and the 2000s

Part II. Institutions, Industry, and the State

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780253052032

0253052033

9780253052049

0253052041

OCLC:

1157565196