Small-Gauge Storytelling : : Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film /

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

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 s...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 46 B/W illustrations Black and white film stills.
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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

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