Patricia R. Zimmermann

Reel Families

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Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet musicvideos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials copy its style to sellintimacy; documentaries use it to recount history frombelow.Reel Families is the first historical study of amateurfilm, the most pervasive of media. Patricia Zimmerman charts the history of thismedium from 1897 to the present, examining how ideological, technical, and socialconstraints have stunted amateur film's potential for extending media productionbeyond corporate monopolies and into the hands of everyday people. She draws on anarray of sources -- camera manufacturers, patents, early film a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-20944-3
EAN: 9780253209443
Produktnummer: 19345330
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.5 cm 367 g
Gewicht: 367
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is also the author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies and has also published articles in Screen, Afterimage, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, The Independent, Genders, Wide Angle, and Current Research in Film.