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BookAmateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960
Martha J. McNamara, Karan Sheldon, Indiana University Press, 2017, 304, English,More informationsA compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960 demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually expressive qualities of films produced in New England between 1915 and 1960 and held in the collections of Northeast Historic Film, a moving image repository and study center that was established to collect, preserve, and interpret the audiovisual record of northern New England. Contributors from diverse backgrounds examine the visual aesthetics of these films while placing them in their social, political, and historical contexts. Each discussion is enhanced by technical notes and the analyses are also juxtaposed with personal reflections by artists who have close connections to particular amateur filmmakers. These reflections reanimate the original private contexts of the home movies before they were recast as objects of study and artifacts of public history.
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BookAmateur Film: Meaning and Practice, 1927-77
Heather Norris Nicholson, Manchester University Press, 2012, 296, English,More informationsAmateur film: Meaning and practice 1927–77 plunges readers into the world of home movies making and reveals that behind popular perceptions of clichéd family scenes shakily shot at home or by the sea, there is much more to discover. Exploring who, how, where, when and why amateur enthusiasts made and shared their films provides fascinating insights into an often misunderstood aspect of national visual history. This study of how non-professional filmmakers responded to the new possibilities of moving image places decades of cine use into a history of changing visual technologies that span from Edwardian visual toys to mobile phones. Using northern cine club records, interviews and amateur films, the author reveals how film-making practices ranged from family footage to highly crafted edited productions about local life and distant places made by enthusiasts who sought to ‘educate, inspire and entertain’ armchair audiences during the early decades of British television.
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BookThere's No Place Like Home Video
James Moran, University Of Minnesota Press, 2002, 256, English,More informationsFrom its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies easy categorization and demands serious consideration. In There’s No Place Like Home Video, James Moran takes on this neglected aspect of popular culture. He offers a cultural history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and its symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes its pure practice.
In Moran’s discussion of video, he argues that previous scholars have not sufficiently dealt with its nature as hybrid, varied, and mutable. He argues that such a medium shouldn’t be conceived as pure in and of itself; it is neither autonomous from other media nor entirely dependent on any other, but instead has a chameleonlike interface with films, television, computers, telephones, and even architecture. Rather than look for a grand narrative to define its specificity, Moran places video and home video at the intersections of multiple forms of communication.
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BookGlobal Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
Masha Salazkina, Enrique Fibla-Guttiérez, Indiana University Press, 2020, 348, English,More informationsThemes : Travaux universitaires | Histoire | Film de famille | Clubs de cinéastes - ArticleArticle
Men with the Movie Camera between 1945 and 1989. Domesticating Moving Image Technology under Communism
Melinda Blos-Jáni, Martor Nr. 18, 2013, p. 77-92, English,More informationsThe fascination of filmmakers with children is constant ever since the first home movies from the 1900’s to the user generated videos of the new media age. This study unfolds the amateur filmmaking practices of a family’s two generations while, in fact, inquiring into how the filmmaking technologies of a given period (1945-1989) were built into a community’s living space (both in a physical and metaphorical sense) and how they structured it. Through the history of the Haáz family living in Târgu-Mureş and the history of the local Film Club (and its leader, Ervin Schnedarek), we can explore the periods in the symbiosis of moving image and everyday life, the changing domestication process of the medium of film, and the shifting visual construction of childhood. In the meantime attention will be paid to the impact of state regulation of amateur film collectives and equipment, on the fact that these domestication stories occurred in the socialist Romania. The starting point of this analysis is that private films are not only embedded in the life of the individual, but also in the time of everyday life, in the history of representational forms and in macro contexts.
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BookLe cinéma partout et pour tous. Une histoire des formats réduits Pathé en France (1912-1939)
Elvira Shahmiri, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, 2024, Français,More informationsFrom 1912 onwards, Pathé took films out of the cinemas with the successive introduction of three film formats and their corresponding machines: the Pathé-KOK, the Pathé-Baby and the Pathé-Rural. From then on, a different history of cinema was written, one in which films were not seen as fixed works, but as malleable, capable of being reedited and shown in different locations, far from urban centres. The notion of the cinema-goer then becomes protean: no longer reduced to the experience of a film seen on the big screen. Cinema is everywhere and accessible to everyone. In writing the commercial and sociological history of these formats, from their origins to the end of the 1930s, Elvira Shahmiri sheds light on a field that has yet to be fully explored, that of small-scale exhibition and domestic screenings. Her comparative analysis of film versions and their catalogues defines the contours of a new methodology for film studies.
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ArticleThinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, histories and (re)use of 9.5mm film
Tim van der Heijden & Mirco Santi, 2002, 32, English,More informationsTim van der Heijden and Mirco Santi, Thinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, histories and (re)use of 9.5mm film, in: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies. #Materiality, Jg. 11 (2022), Nr. 2, S. 94– 125.
This contribution explores the materiality and histories of use of 9.5mm film and the Pathé Baby projector and camera. In December 1922, the French film production company Pathé Frères released the 9.5mm film format, which together with Kodak’s 16mm small-gauge, released the following year, would ‘bring cinema into the home’ and effectively popularise the screening, distribution, and production of home cinema and amateur films. This article aims to highlight the significance of 9.5mm film within the history of amateur film and to demonstrate the heuristic value of performing historical re-enactments with obsolete media technologies, such as 9.5mm film and the Pathé Baby, so as to better understand how they worked, how they were used at the time, and how their historical, material, and performative dimensions can be preserved for the future. It draws on a series of media archaeological experiments with the Pathé Baby projector and camera, as well as on the hands-on reconstruction of a 9.5mm film from 1929, made by the Italian artist, composer, and amateur filmmaker Pippo Barzizza (1902-1994). Utilising experimental media archaeology as a practice-based and sensorial approach to media historiography, the article investigates the materiality, functionality, and practices of (re)use of 9.5mm film as a remarkable early twentieth-century home cinema technology.
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BookLa casa abierta. El cine doméstico y sus reciclajes contemporáneos.
Efrén CUEVAS ÁLVAREZ (ed.), Madrid, Ocho y Medio, 2010, 414, Spanish,More informationsThe book is freely available on the website of the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain).
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BookHistoire de la caméra ciné amateur
Michel AUER, Michèle ORY, Paris , Genève, Les Éditions de l'amateur / Éditions Big S.A., 1979, 174 p., French,More informations - Revue
RevueAmateur Films in the Eastern Bloc
Iluminace, Prague, Národní filmový archiv, 2016, Czech,More informationsIluminace is a peer-reviewed journal, published by the National Film Archive in Czech Republique (NFA) and the Czech Society for Film Studies (CEFS). Four issues are published each year.
In 2016, the second issue is dedicated to amateur films in the Eastern Bloc, and one can read articles from scholars involved in the INEDITS annual meeting held in Prague.
Four articles to read :
- Socialist Movie Making vs. Gosplan. Establishing an Infrastructure for the Soviet Amateur Cinema, by Maria Vinogradova,
- Excavating Amateur Films from the Socialist Romania. Making Sense of Cine-amateur History Through Oral Histories and Educational Handbooks, by Melinda Blos-Jáni,
- A Semi-professional or a “Professional Amateur”? Filmmaking between Amateurism and Professionalism, by Veronika Jančová, , by Veronika Jančová,
- (Non)professional Experiments with a Family. Family Films (of Jaroslav Kučera) as an Example of Artistic Practice, by Kateřina Svatoňová.
The list of articles is here. The journal is indexed and abstracted by the database Scopus. You can buy the issue on the website of the NFA.
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Un exemple de publications spécialisées : la presse à destination des cinéastes amateurs
Gabriel MENAGER, Paris, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, 1996, 754 p., French,More informationsThis thesis in three volumes is the result of an exploration of a press corpus which is destined for amateur film makers.
In order to understand the evolution of this specific area of press better and to analyse the presupposition in process in the amateur films, it became necessary to study an institution which is never obvious even if it had influenced its making either technically, thematically, rhetorically or ideologically speaking.
In our study, we favoured three different fields. The first volume (421 p.) sets the discursive strategies in process in this press, from 1950 to 1990. Then, in the same volume, we tried to define the classic reader of this kind of press. The second volume (125 p.) offers an idea of the amateur film makers within the same period, inside the cinematographic institution and during the french “Nouvelle Vague”. The third volume (208 p.) is an historical outline of these magazines editorial choices, from 1850 to the beginning of the video press (1990). In a second part, this volume presents a chronological bibliography of this press (1850-1990).
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BookSmall-Gauge storytelling : discovering the amateur fiction film
Ryan SHAND, Ian CRAVEN (ed.), Édimbourg, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 288 p., English,More informationsWhat do you understand by the term ‘home movie’? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family? Did you know that amateur filmmakers have also explored fictional genres as diverse and fascinating as their professional counterparts, that specific amateur film studios have risen and fallen, or that household-name directors owe their origins and inspirations to the amateur film movement?
Across a range of settings, this book offers an introduction to the amateur maker of film comedies, thrillers, adaptations and sci-fi. It records the ambitions and achievements of enthusiasts struggling to emulate the mainstream and tell their own stories, armed with limited resources and endless initiative.
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BookReel Families : a social history of amateur film
Patricia R. ZIMMERMAN, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995, 208 p., English,More informationsAmateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet music videos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials copy its style to sell intimacy; documentaries use it to recount history “from below.”
Reel Families is the first historical study of amateur film, the most pervasive of media. Patricia Zimmerman charts the history of this medium from 1897 to the present, examining how ideological, technical, and social constraints have stunted amateur film’s potential for extending media production beyond corporate monopolies and into the hands of everyday people. She draws on an array of sources—camera manufacturers, patents, early film and photography technology journals, amateur filmmaking magazines, professional magazines, and family-oriented popular magazines—to investigate how the concept of amateur film was transformed within evolving contexts of technology, aesthetics, social relations, and politics.
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BookPrivate Eyes and the public gazes : the manipulation and valorisation of amateur images
Sonja KMEC, Viviane THILL (ed.), Trèves, Kliomedia, 2009, 135 p., English,More informationsAmateur photographs and films are being increasingly used by television and documentary filmmakers to illustrate and authenticate their work. Artists pursue their own ways to enter into dialogue with personal images of memories. There is also an increasing interest in private images to be found among social scientists (cultural anthropologists, historians, media theorists) and also among psychotherapists.
To bring these different ways of dealing with amateur images together, the Centre national de l’audiovisuel and the University of Luxembourg organised in 2008 an international colloquium entitled The Manipulation and Valorisation of Amateur Images. Thirteen researchers, artists and media specialists, among them Patricia Zimmermann and Heather Norris Nicholson, were invited to give a paper and present their theoretical framework, empirical analyses, ethical reflections and concrete creative usages in this book.
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BookPaillard Bolex Boolsky
Thomas PERRET, Roland COSANDEY, Yverdon-les-Bains, Éditions de la Thièle, 2013, 188 p., French,More informationsFrom the thirties, thousands of 16 mm and 8 mm cameras and projectors have been sold by Paillard-Bolex around the world.
With a lot of illustrations, this book deals with:
- manufactured production of the most famous cinema equipments, by Thomas Perret,
- public and private films made by Jacques Boolsky (1895-1932), by Roland Cosandey.
In addition, four films made by Jacques Boolsky and four commercials, advertising Paillard-Bolex, are available on DVD.
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BookMovies on home ground : explorations in amateur cinema
Ian CRAVEN (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 365 p., English,More informationsMovies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema offers a critical response to the still under-explored mode of amateur cinema, as a particular sphere of British film practice. Concentrating upon a roughly fifty-year period (1930–1980), during which such filmmaking grew rapidly as a significant leisure activity in Britain, the volume shows how popular ‘cine’ assumed distinctive institutional and ideological forms, and some remarkable aesthetic emphases, grounded in consistent technical and critical apparatuses.
Although an outline history of such filmmaking is certainly implicit, the priority of Movies On Home Ground is to offer a series of overlapping perspectives on amateur movie-making, with a view to locating such filmmaking as a component of the broader shape of British film culture. Emphasis is thus given to institutional contexts, technical determinants, and the social formations of practising filmmakers, as well as to concerns with the construction of amateur outlooks, understandings of amateur aesthetics, and the remarkable diversity of amateur genericity. The anthology thus supplies a text offering support to study courses dealing with the many varieties of non-professional participation best understood as truly ‘amateur’, rather than as ‘independent’ or ‘alternative’ filmmaking.
By granting the amateur a place within the acknowledged range of significant interventions, the recognised canon of British filmmaking is widened in fascinating new directions.
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BookMining the home movie : excavations in histories and memories
Karen I. ISHIZUKA, Patricia R. ZIMMERMANN (ed.), Oakland, University of California Press, 2007, 360 p., English,More informationsThe 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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BookLettres filmées d'Algérie : des soldats à la caméra (1954-1962)
Jean-Pierre BERTIN-MAGHIT, Paris, Nouveau Monde éditions, 2015, 370 p., French,More informationsThemes : Travaux universitaires | Histoire - Book
BookLe Film de famille : usage privé, usage public
Roger ODIN (dir.), Paris, Méridiens Klincksieck, 1995, 236 p., French,More informationsThemes : Matériel | Travaux universitaires | Histoire | Film de famille - BookBook
Le Film de famille
Nathalie TOUSIGNANT (ed.), Bruxelles, Publications des facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 2004, 205 p., French,More informationsContents
- Le film de famille, composante nécessaire de la mémoire collective, by Jean Puissant
- Jeux de l’image et du temps : construction de la mémoire familiale et adoption internationale, by Martin Pâquet
- Les films de famille : de “merveilleux documents” ? Approche sémio-pragmatique, by Roger Odin
- Films de famille et films sur la famille, by Colette Piault
- Film de famille et mémoire ouvrière, by Florence Loriaux
- Propos d’un passeur d’images, by André Huet
- Le film de famille : cadre structurant et lieu de mémoire, by Nathalie Tousignant
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RevueLe Cinéma en amateur
Roger ODIN (dir), Paris, Le Seuil, 1999, 301 p., French,More informationsDuring the nineties, Roger Odin has edited two significant books on amateur cinema: Le film de famille : usages privés, usages publics (1995), then this volume of the review Communications entitled “Cinéma en amateur” (1999) with contributions from fifteen scholars.
These essays could be read online.
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BookJubilee book : essays on amateur film, rencontre autour des inédits
Charleroi, Association Européenne INEDITS, 1997, 144 p., French and English,More informationsIn 1997, INEDITS published an anthology of english and french texts about the study, the preservation and the promotion of amateur films. This book is still available. You can order it : just write to our organization.
Contents
- Introduction, par Jean-Philippe Art
- Approche de l’univers des inédits, par André Huet
- Preserve the image ? Preserve the film ! par David Cleveland
- Moving memories : image and identity in home movies, par Heather Norris Nicholson
- The home movies : a veil of poetry, par Karen L. Ishizuka
- Vingt ans de travail pour une cinémathèque régionale, par André Colleu
- Saving local history at Danmarks Radio, par Ole Brage
- Democracy and cinema : a history of amateur film, par Patricia R. Zimmermann
- History, memory and commemoration : amateur film-makers look back at the resistance, par Susan Aasman et Klaas Gert Lugtenborg
- La “mise en spectacle” des films d’amateurs, par Jean-Claude Guézennec
- And the winner is… a brief history of the Scottish Amateur Film Festival (1933-1986), par Janet McBain
- In pursuit of happiness ? A search for the definition of amateur film, par Bert Hogenkamp and Mieke Lauwers
- L’inédit et le droit : ébauche d’un contrat, par Suzanne Capiau
- Remembering and re-inventing one’s past : the use of home movies in recent Canadian avant-garde film, par Gerald Saul
- Amateur aesthetics and practises in films of the British Co-operative Movement in the 1930s, par Alan Burton
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BookAmateur Filmmaking : the home movie, the archive, the web
Laura RASCOLI, Gwenda YOUNG, Barry MONAHAN (ed.), London / New-York, Bloomsbury, 2014, 392 p., English,More informationsWith the advent of digital filmmaking and critical recognition of the relevance of self expression, first-person narratives, and personal practices of memorialization, interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger. Bringing together key scholars in the field, and revealing the rich variety of amateur filmmaking -from home movies of Imperial India and film diaries of life in contemporary China, to the work of leading auteurs such as Joseph Morder and Péter Forgács – Amateur Filmmaking highlights the importance of amateur cinema as a core object of critical interest across an array of disciplines. With contributions on the role of the archive, on YouTube, and on the impact of new technologies on amateur filmmaking, these essays offer the first comprehensive examination of this growing field.
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BookAmateur Cinema : the rise of North American moviemaking, 1923-1960
Charles TEPPERMAN, Oakland, University of California Press, 2015, 376 p., English,More informationsFrom the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn’t until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and by the 1950s, over a million Americans had amateur movie cameras. In Amateur Cinema, Charles Tepperman explores the meaning of the “amateur” in film history and modern visual culture.
In the middle decades of the twentieth century—the period that saw Hollywood’s rise to dominance in the global film industry—a movement of amateur filmmakers created an alternative world of small-scale movie production and circulation. Organized amateur moviemaking was a significant phenomenon that gave rise to dozens of clubs and thousands of participants producing experimental, nonfiction, or short-subject narratives. Rooted in an examination of surviving films, this book traces the contexts of “advanced” amateur cinema and articulates the broad aesthetic and stylistic tendencies of amateur films.
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BookAbenteuer Alltag : zur archäologie des amateurfilms
Siegfried MATTL, Carina LESKY, Vrääth ÖHNER, Ingo ZECHNER (ed.), Vienna, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, 2015, German,More informationsDuring the past decade, the international study of non-theatrical cinematic forms has seen a strong expansion – with amateur film as a central area of research. Changing collection policies in film archives and museums and new forms of digital access are not the only reasons for this interest. However, the major impulse to current debates comes from contributions based on an analysis of archival holdings.
Abenteuer Alltag : Zur Archäologie des Amateurfilms is the first german-language publication to give an overview of amateur film research in Europe, presenting essays on topics such as the politics and history, the technology and aesthetics, as well as the bodies and spaces of amateur film. In addition, several European and American film archives provide information about their collection strategies.
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Article1928-1959 : idéologies, structures et évolutions des clubs de cinéastes amateurs
Gilles OLLIVIER, Perpignan, Institut Jean Vigo / Cinémathèque de Toulouse, 1991, pp. 1-12, French,More informationsThemes : Travaux universitaires | Histoire | Clubs de cinéastes
