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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823172003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612358456

1-282-35845-6

0-520-93968-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IshizukaKaren L

ZimmermannPatricia Rodden

Disciplina

791.43/0222

Soggetti

Amateur films - History and criticism

Film archives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Includes filmorgaphy and videography: p. 289-297.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.