Small-gauge storytelling : discovering the amateur fiction film
Ryan Shand (Editor), Ian Craven (Editor)
What do you understand by the term 'home movie'? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family? Did you know that amateur filmmakers have also explored fictional genres as diverse and fascinating as their professional counterparts, that specific amateur film studios have risen and fallen, or that household-name directors owe their origins and inspirations to the amateur film movement? Across a range of settings, this book offers an introduction to the amateur maker of film comedies, thrillers, adaptations and sci-fi. It records the ambitions and achievements of enthusiasts struggling to emulate the mainstream and tell their own stories, armed with limited resources and endless initiative. KEY FEATURES: --the first dedicated book-length study of the amateur fiction film --draws together established and emerging scholars from Europe, North America and Australasia --establishes fresh approaches to the study of small-gauge filmmaking using formats such as 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm -- --places amateur fiction within ongoing debates and histories --establishes previously unrecognised contributions to the organisational, aesthetic and intellectual history of amateur filmmaking --the first published bibliography of critical sources for the study of the amateur fiction film. Dr Ryan Shand is Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland' based at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Ian Craven is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Publisher's note
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780748656349, 0748656340
854617456
Introduction: Ambitions and arguments
exploring amateur cinema through fiction / Ryan Shand
Historical, aesthetic, cultural: the problematical value of amateur cine fiction / Guy Edmonds
Sewell, Rose and the aesthetics of amateur cine fiction / Ian Craven
Crafting life into film: analysing family fiction films from the 1930s / Martina Roepke
Framing the welfare state: Swedish amateur fiction film 1930 to 1965 / Mats Jönsson
Occupying a distinguished but lonely place in the amateur movement: ace movies 1929 to 1964 / Francis Dyson
'High art' locally: the screen adaptations of IuG-film / Maria Vinogradova
Brazilian amateur cinema and fictional films from Foto-Cine Clube Gaúcho / Lila Foster
'This is not Hollywood!': Peter Watkins and the challenge of amateurism to the professional / John R. Cook
'Start as you mean to go on': Ken Russell's early amateur films / Brian Hoyle
The nocturnal affairs of Mr Miletić: authorship, genre and cine-amateurism in Yugoslavia / Greg DeCuir, Jr
The aesthetic of the possible: The green cockatoo as bricolage of heterogeneous traditions / Siegfried Mattl and Vrääth Öhner
The fragile magic of the home: amateur domestic comedies and the intimate geography of childhood / Karen Lury
The Spence brothers: amateur sci-fi and cine culture in Northern Ireland / Ciara Chambers