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Informationen zum Autor PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is also the author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies and has also published articles in Screen, Afterimage, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, The Independent, Genders, Wide Angle, and Current Research in Film. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Charts the hidden history of amateur film, 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments1 Pleasure or Money2 Entrepreneurs, Artists, Hobbyists, and Workers: 1897-19233 Professional Results with Amateur Ease: 1923-19404 Cameras and Guns: 1941-19495 Do-It-Yourself: 1950-19626 Reinventing AmateurismNotes Index
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Pleasure or Money
2 Entrepreneurs, Artists, Hobbyists, and Workers: 1897-1923
3 Professional Results with Amateur Ease: 1923-1940
4 Cameras and Guns: 1941-1949
5 Do-It-Yourself: 1950-1962
6 Reinventing Amateurism
Notes
Index
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PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is also the author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies and has also published articles in Screen, Afterimage, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, The Independent, Genders, Wide Angle, and Current Research in Film.
