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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/0222
• Soggetto topico: Amateur films - History and criticism; Film archives
• Soggetto non controllato: amateur film; anthology; archival films; archives; critical analysis; essay collection; family memories; film analysis; film scholars; film students; film studies; film theory; filmmakers; firsthand accounts; historical significance; home movies; international perspective; moviemaking; nonfiction essays; personal documentaries; personal histories; personal memories; social insights; theoretical approach; visual essays; visual history
• Altri autori: IshizukaKaren L ZimmermannPatricia Rodden
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mining the home movie
• ISBN: 9786612358456; 1-282-35845-6; 0-520-93968-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823172003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II