Global perspectives on amateur film histories and cultures /edited by Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez.
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (ix, 336 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Understanding (Amateur) Cinema: Epistemology and Technology / Crossing the Amateur Line: The Lesson of Even-- -- As You and I / "I Give You a Toast to the Pioneers!" The Movie Maker Ten Best Video Competition 1982-1983 / From Insiders to Outsiders: Tracing Amateurism in Chinese Independent Documentary of the 1990s and the 2000s / Seeking Advice: A Political Economy of Israeli Commemorative Home Videos / Amateur Film in the Factory: Forms and Functions of Amateur Cinema in Corporate Media Culture / The Ambitions of Amateur Film in Vichy France / On the Amateur Origins of Fernando Birri's Documentary School of Santa Fe / The Wind from the South: Experiences of Substandard Filmmaking in Galicia in the 1970s / Super 8 in Mexico / The Videogiornale: Social Movements and Amateur Media Technologies in Bologna Between the Late 1980s and the Early 1990s / "A Vital Human Place" for the Counterculture: Fifth Estate and Amateur Film Culture in Detroit, 1965-1967 / Ingvars Leitis's Subversive Ethnographic Documentaries, 1975-1989: Cover Stories and National Representation in Soviet Latvia / Worldly Matters: Distributed Histories of Tunisian Amateur Cinema and the Screening of Nontheatrical Film / Early International Super 8 Film Festivals: The Case of Caracas 1976-1980 / A Gift to Mother: "The Most Universally Appealing Kind of Film That Any Amateur Can Hope to Make" / Postcards from Yiddishland: Amateur Filmmaking and Vernacular Yiddish Culture / Benoît Turquety -- James Rosenow -- Graeme R. Spurr -- Margherita Viviani -- Laliv Melamed -- Yvonne Zimmermann -- Julie Guillaumot -- Mariano Mestman and Christopher Moore -- Pablo La Parra-Pérez -- Jesse Lerner -- Diego Cavallotti -- Joseph DeLeon -- Inese Strupule -- Samhita Sunya -- Isabel Arredondo -- Maria Vinogradova -- Rachel Webb Jekanowski.
"For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez fill the literature gap by extending that focus and increasing inclusivity. Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline through their study of alternative cinema in new territories, fueled by different historical and political circumstances, innovative technologies, and ambitious practitioners. The essays in this volume work to realize the radical societal democratization that shows up in amateur cinema around the world. In particular, diverse contributors highlight the significance of amateur filmmaking, the exhibition of amateur films, the uses and availability of film technologies, and the inventive and creative approaches of filmmakers and advocates of amateur film. 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"--