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.

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University of California Press

Year

2007

Print ISBN

9780520248076

eBook ISBN

9780520939684

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Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Art General

Contents
List of 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
List of Contributors
Index

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