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1 online resource (354 pages) |
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| Summary |
Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history. It defines a genre of film studies and establishes the home movie as a tool for extracting historical and social insights. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-307) and index. |
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Includes filmorgaphy and videography: pages 289-297. |
| Contents |
Remaking home movies / Richard Fung -- Human studies film achives, Smithsonian Institution / John Homiak, Pamela Wintle -- Wittgenstein tractactus : personal reflections on home movies / Péter Forgács -- La filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico / Iván Trujillo -- Ordinary film : Péter Forgác's The maelstrom / Michael S. Roth -- Imperial war museum film and video archive / Kay Gladstone -- 90 miles : the politics and aethetics of personal documentary / Amy Villarejo -- Florida moving image archive / Steven Davidson -- Something strong within : a visual essay / Karen L. Ishizuka, Robert A. Nakamura -- Something strong within as historical memory / Robert Rosen -- Moving image archive of the Japanese American National Museum / Karen L. Ishizuka -- Home movie and the National Film Registry : The story of topaz / Karen L. Ishizuka, Patricia R. Zimmermann -- Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute / Nico de Klerk -- Home away from home : private films from the Dutch East Indies / Nico de Klerk -- Library of congress / Brian Taves -- Deteriorating memories : blurring fact and fiction in home movies in India / Ayisha Abraham -- Movie queen : Northeast historic film / Karan Sheldon, Dwight Swanson -- WPA film library / Carolyn Faber -- Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta / Karen Glynn -- Academy film archive / Lynne Kirste -- "As if by magic" : authority, aesthetics, and visions of the workplace in home movies, circa 1931-1949 / Heather Norris Nicholson -- New Zealand film archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua / Virginia Callanan -- Working people, topical rims, and home movies : the case of the North West Film Archive / Maryann Gomes -- Oregon State Historical Society's moving image archives / Michele Kribs -- Reflections on the family home movie as document : a semio-pragmatic approach / Roger Odin -- Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive / Ross Lipman -- Morphing history into histories : from amateur film to the archive of the future / Patricia R. Zimmermann. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Amateur films -- History and criticism.
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Amateur films. |
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Film archives.
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Film archives. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ishizuka, Karen L. Mining the Home Movie : Excavations in Histories and Memories. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520248076 |
| ISBN |
9780520939684 (electronic book) |
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0520939689 (electronic book) |
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0520230876 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520248074 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520230873 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520248076 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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