Amateur filmmaking the home movie, the archive, the web

"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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Monahan, Barry (-), Rascaroli, Laura, Young, Gwenda
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic 2014
Edition:1st publ
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See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004573649708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of 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