Small-Gauge Storytelling : : Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film / / Ryan Shand, Ian Craven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Shand, Ryan,; Craven, Ian,
• MitwirkendeR: Chambers, Ciara,; Cook, John R.,; Craven, Ian,; DeCuir, Greg,; Dyson, Francis,; Edmonds, Guy,; Foster, Lila,; Hoyle, Brian,; Jönsson, Mats,; Lury, Karen,; Mattl, Siegfried,; Roepke, Martina,; Shand, Ryan,; Vinogradova, Maria,; Öhner, Vrääth,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 46 B/W illustrations Black and white film stills.

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 Featuresthe first dedicated book-length study of the amateur fiction filmdraws together established and emerging scholars from Europe, North America and Australasiaestablishes fresh approaches to the study of small-gauge filmmaking using formats such as 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mmplaces amateur fiction within ongoing debates and historiesestablishes previously unrecognised contributions to the organisational, aesthetic and intellectual history of amateur filmmakingthe first published bibliography of critical sources for the study of the amateur fiction film

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ambitions and Arguments – Exploring Amateur Cinema through Fiction -- Part I: Framing Fiction -- 1 Historical, Aesthetic, Cultural: The Problematical Value of Amateur Cine Fiction -- 2 Sewell, Rose and the Aesthetics of Amateur Cine Fiction -- 3 Crafting Life into Film: Analysing Family Fiction Films from the 1930s -- 4 Framing the Welfare State: Swedish Amateur Fiction Film 1930 to 1965 -- Part II: Studio Sensibilities -- 5 Occupying a Distinguished but Lonely Place in the Amateur Movement: Ace Movies 1929 to 1964 -- 6 ‘High Art’ Locally: The Screen Adaptations of IuG-Film -- 7 Brazilian Amateur Cinema and Fictional Films from Foto-Cine Clube Gaúcho -- Part III: Single-Minded Scenarios -- 8 ‘This is not Hollywood!’: Peter Watkins and the Challenge of Amateurism to the Professional -- 9 ‘Start as You Mean to Go On’: Ken Russell’s Early Amateur Films -- 10 The Nocturnal Affairs of Mr Miletić: Authorship, Genre and Cine-Amateurism in Yugoslavia -- Part IV: Genres and Genericity -- 11 The Aesthetic of the Possible: The Green Cockatoo as Bricolage of Heterogeneous Traditions -- 12 The Fragile Magic of the Home: Amateur Domestic Comedies and the Intimate Geography of Childhood -- 13 The Spence Brothers: Amateur Sci-Fi and Cine Culture in Northern Ireland -- Notes on Contributors -- Index