Amateur Filmmaking The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web
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Laura Rascaroli is Toyota Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She lectures on Italian film and television in the Department of Italian and on European cinema in the School of Languages and Literature. She is co-Chair of the Board of Film Studies and coordinates the MA in Film Studies. Gwenda Young is Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her work has appeared in a variety of national and international journals, including Sight and Sound; Popular Culture Review; Film/Film Culture; Film Ireland; Journal of Irish Association for American Studies. She has also contributed to radio programmes on the national broadcaster, Radio TelefĂs Ăireann, and local radio. Barry Monahan is Lecturer in Film Studies at University College, Cork, Ireland. He has written on, and researched, the relationship between the Abbey Theatre and cinema from the beginning of the sound period until the 1960s, something he explores in his monograph Ireland's Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (2009).<i>Amateur Filmmaking</i> is certainly a widely varied and eclectic collection of articles, but also delightful in its discovery of a territory largely ignored by scholars until very recently.
- Enrique Fibla Gutiérrez, Synoptique
<i>Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web</i> reinvigorates the ongoing discussion about domestic filmmaking in the light of recent shifts in technologies, socio-economic circumstances and ideas of personal space. With the rise of a new wave of practitioners and pro-sumers utilising digital technology and a new generation of intellectuals, this collection dynamises the home movie discourse, with the web mobilising the archive, articulating an intriguing relationship between current scholarship on personal filmmaking and this most quotidian and intimate form.
- Deane Williams, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies, Monash University, Australia, and editor of the journal <i>Studies in Documentary Film</i>,
Hats off to Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young, and Barry Monahan for assembling fascinating highlights from their ground-breaking 2010 conference on amateur film, <i>Saving Private Reels</i>. <i>Amateur Film: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web</i> features 23 essays that explore the diversity of the 'home movie' which span nations, genres, eras, aesthetics, and critical frames. This collection includes studies of some unlikely film figures like Errol Morris as well as largely unknown auteurs; it maps diverse visions of the past and future by examining pioneering 16mm and 8mm amateur films from Ireland, England, India, and China, to name a few; new archival practices; the latest YouTube viral videos as well as multiplatform experiments for Web 2.0. Writers are diverse in their origins, interest areas, and intellectual approaches. Some highlights include Richard Kilborn and Ruth Balint each writing on Hungarian archivist-filmmaker PĂ©ter ForgĂĄcs and Dominique Bluher on the prolific French filmmaker Joseph Morder. This collection leaves one hungry for more. As Marker might have asked, 'Will there be another collection?!'
- Deirdre Boyle, Associate Professor, The School of Media Studies, The New School, USA,
This volume, adding to the already rich field of amateur and home movie studies, takes the inquiry even deeper, proving once and for all that we as scholars, students, filmmakers, historians, and more, must take the amateur and home movie as a serious object of inquiry. With its far reaching, interdisciplinary, international approach, <i>Amateur Filmmaking</i> is a thoroughly engaging, readable, and invaluable resource.
- Alisa Lebow, Reader in Film Studies, University of Sussex, UK,