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Home Movies Hardly Silent is an in-depth study and analysis of Deaf-made home movies during the silent era of amateur filmmaking (1925-1970s), showing how Deaf people used film technology to textualize sign language
List of contents
- Foreword by Dwight Swanson
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: How Amateur Filmmaking Technology Gave the Deaf Their Voice
- Chapter 3: Krauel's Journey as Amateur Filmmaker Pioneer
- Chapter 4: On the Authenticity of Amateur Filmmaking and Deaf Folklife
- Chapter 5: Designing Ethnographic Methodology for Manifesting Deaf Voice
- Chapter 6: Fundamentals for Organizing Film Collections
- Chapter 7: Theme Based Ethnographic Analysis
- Chapter 8: Tweaking Ethnographic Paradigms and Views
- Chapter 9: Leaving a Cinematic Legacy through Sign Language
- Chapter 10: Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Matt Malzkuhn is an educator and entrepreneur who has developed resources related to Deaf Culture and American Sign Language. A former faculty at Gallaudet University, he is now a research consultant for the Sign Language Research Laboratory at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Ted Supalla is Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University. He is the co-author of
Sign Language Archaeology: Understanding Historical Roots of American Sign Language. He also produced a documentary film on a Deaf filmmaker who recorded Deaf culture from 1925 to the 1940s.
Summary
Home Movies Hardly Silent is an in-depth study and analysis of Deaf-made home movies during the silent era of amateur filmmaking (1925-1970s), showing how Deaf people used film technology to textualize sign language
