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Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures /

Together, these essays shed new light on alternative cinema in a wide range of cities and countries where amateur films thrive in the shadow of commercial and conventional film industries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Salazkina, Masha
Otros Autores: Fibla, Enrique
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Cotents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
  • Part I. Medium Specificity and Expanded Media Ecologies
  • 1. Understanding (Amateur) Cinema: Epistemology and Technology
  • 2. Crossing the Amateur Line: The Lesson of Even-As You and I
  • 3. "I Give You a Toast to the Pioneers!" The Movie MakerTen Best Video Competition 1982-1983
  • 4. From Insiders to Outsiders: Tracing Amateurism in Chinese Independent Documentary of the 1990s and the 2000s
  • Part II. Institutions, Industry, and the State
  • 5. Seeking Advice: A Political Economy of Israeli Commemorative Home Videos
  • 6. Amateur Film in the Factory: Forms and Functions ofAmateur Cinema in Corporate Media Culture
  • 7. The Ambitions of Amateur Film in Vichy France
  • 8. On the Amateur Origins of Fernando Birri's Documentary School of Santa Fe
  • Part III. Politics of Legitimization and Subversion
  • 9 The Wind from the South: Experiences of Substandard Filmmaking in Galicia in the 1970s
  • 10. Super 8 in Mexico
  • 11. The Videogiornale: Social Movements and Amateur Media Technologies in Bologna between the Late 1980s and theEarly 1990s
  • 12. "A Vital Human Place" for the Counterculture: Fifth Estate and Amateur Film Culture in Detroit, 1965-1967
  • 13. Ingvars Leitis's Subversive Ethnographic Documentaries,1975-1989: Cover Stories and National Representation in Soviet Latvia
  • Part IV. Transnational Networks: Amateur Cinema Travels
  • 14. Worldly Matters: Distributed Histories of TunisianAmateur Cinema and the Screening ofNontheatrical Film
  • 15. Early International Super 8 Film Festivals: The Case of Caracas 1976-1980
  • 16. A Gift to Mother: "The Most Universally Appealing Kind of Film That Any Amateur Can Hope to Make"
  • 17. Postcards from Yiddishland: Amateur Filmmaking and Vernacular Yiddish Culture
  • Index