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Informationen zum Autor Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer! curator! and documentary producer and is the author of Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (2006). Patricia R. Zimmerman is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries! Wars! Democracies (2000). Klappentext "By claiming home movies as essential tools of historiography! Ishizuka and Zimmerman manage to break down artificial barriers between public histories and private records. In this groundbreaking volume! their selection of visionary essays offers a way to reclaim devalued work and turn the tables on the cataloguers. Absolutely required reading for historians! curators and media analysts."-B. Ruby Rich! author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction. The Home Movie Movement: Excavations! Artifacts! Minings-Patricia R. Zimmermann 1. Remaking Home Movies-Richard Fung 2. The Human Studies Film Archives! Smithsonian Institution-John Homiak and Pamela Wintle 3. Wittgenstein Tractatus: Personal Reflections on Home Movies-Péter Forgács 4. La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Iván Trujillo 5. Ordinary Film: Péter Forgács's The Maelstrom -Michael S. Roth 6. The Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive-Kay Gladstone 7. 90 Miles : The Politics and Aesthetics of Personal Documentary-Amy Villarejo 8. The Florida Moving Image Archive-Steven Davidson 9. Something Strong Within : A Visual Essay-Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura 10. Something Strong Within as Historical Memory-Robert Rosen 11. The Moving Image Archive of the Japanese American National Museum-Karen L. Ishizuka 12. The Home Movie and the National Film Registry: The Story of Topaz -Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann 13. The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute-Nico de Klerk 14. Home Away from Home: Private Films from the Dutch East Indies-Nico de Klerk 15. The Library of Congress-Brian Taves 16. Deteriorating Memories: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Home Movies in India-Ayisha Abraham 17. The Movie Queen : Northeast Historic Film-Karan Sheldon and Dwight Swanson 18. The WPA Film Library-Carolyn Faber 19. Mule Racing in the Mississippi Delta-Karen Glynn 20. The Academy Film Archive-Lynne Kirste 21. "As If by Magic": Authority! Aesthetics! and Visions of the Workplace in Home Movies! circa 1931-1949-Heather Norris Nicholson 22. The New Zealand Film Archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua-Virginia Callanan 23. Working People! Topical Films! and Home Movies: The Case of the North West Film Archive-Maryann Gomes 24. The Oregon State Historical Society's Moving Image Archives-Michele Kribs 25. Reflections on the Family Home Movie as Document: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach-Roger Odin 26. The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive-Ross Lipman 27. Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future-Patricia R. Zimmermann Selected Filmography and Videography Selected Bibliography Contributors Index ...
