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.
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2021.
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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