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Amateur movie making : aesthetics of the everyday in New England film, 1915-1960 /

A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, 'Amateur Movie Making' 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 encoun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Northeast Historic Film (Organization)
Otros Autores: McNamara, Martha J. (Editor ), Sheldon, Karan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A place for moving images : thirty years of Northeast historic film
  • The technologies of home movies and amateur film
  • A region apart: representations of maine and Northern New England in personal film, 1920-1940
  • A strange familiarity : Alexander Forbes and the aesthetics of amateur film
  • Midway between secular and sacred : consecrating the home movie as a cultural heritage object
  • "All the wonderful possibilities of motion pictures" : Hiram Percy Maxim and the aesthetics of amateur filmmaking
  • Comedic counterpoise : landscape and laughs in the films of Sidney N. Shurcliff
  • Not-at-home movies
  • The boss's film : expert amateurs and industrial culture
  • Opening the can : home movies in the public sphere
  • Layers of vision in amateur film.