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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ambitions and arguments -- exploring amateur cinema through fiction / Ryan Shand -- Historical, aesthetic, cultural: the problematical value of amateur cine fiction / Guy Edmonds -- Sewell, Rose and the aesthetics of amateur cine fiction / Ian Craven -- Crafting life into film: analysing family fiction films from the 1930s / Martina Roepke -- Framing the welfare state: Swedish amateur fiction film 1930 to 1965 / Mats Jönsson -- Occupying a distinguished but lonely place in the amateur movement: ace movies 1929 to 1964 / Francis Dyson -- 'High art' locally: the screen adaptations of IuG-film / Maria Vinogradova -- Brazilian amateur cinema and fictional films from Foto-Cine Clube Gaúcho / Lila Foster -- 'This is not Hollywood!': Peter Watkins and the challenge of amateurism to the professional / John R. Cook -- 'Start as you mean to go on': Ken Russell's early amateur films / Brian Hoyle -- The nocturnal affairs of Mr Miletić: authorship, genre and cine-amateurism in Yugoslavia / Greg DeCuir, Jr -- The aesthetic of the possible: The green cockatoo as bricolage of heterogeneous traditions / Siegfried Mattl and Vrääth Öhner -- The fragile magic of the home: amateur domestic comedies and the intimate geography of childhood / Karen Lury -- The Spence brothers: amateur sci-fi and cine culture in Northern Ireland / Ciara Chambers. |
| Summary |
'Small-Gauge Storytelling' pioneers new approaches to amateur film practice, the imaginative horizons of its surrounding s̀ocial world', and the distinctive forms and aesthetics favoured by the non-professional maker of movie dramas, comedies and thrillers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Amateur films -- History and criticism.
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Amateur films. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Shand, Ryan, editor.
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Craven, Ian, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Small-gauge storytelling. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013] 9780748656349 (DLC) 2013431940 (OCoLC)854617456 |
| ISBN |
9780748656356 electronic book |
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0748656359 electronic book |
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9780748656349 |
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0748656340 |
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