Amateur Filmmaking

ContributorsLaura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young, Barry Monahan: Introduction. Amateur Filmmaking: New Developments and DirectionsSECTION ONE: REFRAMING THE HOME MOVIE1. Roger Odin: The Home Movie and Space of Communication2. Liz Czach: Home Movies and Amateur Film as National Cinema3. Maija Howe: The Photographic Hangover: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of the Postwar 8mm Home Movie4. Mark Neumann: Amateur Film, Automobility and the Cinematic Aesthetics of LeisureSECTION TWO: PRIVATE REELS, HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CONCERNS5. Heather Norris Nicholson: Cinemas of Catastrophe and Continuity: Mapping Out Twentieth-Century Amateur Practices of Intentional History-Making in Northern England 6. Gwenda Young: Glimpses of a Hidden History: Exploring Irish Amateur Collections, 1930-1970 7. Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes: Uncensored British Imperial Politics in Late Colonial Home Movies: Memsahibs, Indian Bearers and Chinese Communist Insurgents8. Karen Lury: The Amateur Film: From Artifact to Anecdote9. Janna Jones: Starring Sally Peshlakai: Rewriting the Script for Tad Nichols's 1939 Navajo Rug WeavingSECTION THREE: NONFICTIONAL RECONTEXTUALISATIONS10. Efrén Cuevas: Change of Scale: Home Movies as Microhistory in Documentary Films 11. Barry Monahan: Creating Historiography: Alan Gilsenan's Formal Reframing of Amateur Archival Footage in Home Movie Nights12. Stefano Odorico: "That Would Be Wrong": Errol Morris and His Use of Home Movies (As Metalanguages) in Feature DocumentariesSECTION FOUR: AMATEUR AUTEUR13. Richard Kilborn: "I am a Time Archaeologist": Some Reflections on the Filmmaking Practice of Péter Forgács14. Ruth Balint: Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Péter Forgács's Private Hungary15. Dominique Bluher: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, or Morder's Amateur Toolkit16. Dominique Bluher: Joseph Morder, the "Filmateur": An Interview with Joseph Morder17. Laura Rascaroli: Working at Home: Tarnation, AmateurAuthorship, and Self-inscription in the

Laura Rascaroli is Toyota Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She lectures on Italian film and television in the Department of Italian and on European cinema in the School of Languages and Literature. She is co-Chair of the Board of Film Studies and coordinates the MA in Film Studies. Gwenda Young is Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her work has appeared in a variety of national and international journals, including Sight and Sound; Popular Culture Review; Film/Film Culture; Film Ireland; Journal of Irish Association for American Studies. She has also contributed to radio programmes on the national broadcaster, Radio Telef s ireann, and local radio. Barry Monahan is Lecturer in Film Studies at University College, Cork, Ireland. He has written on, and researched, the relationship between the Abbey Theatre and cinema from the beginning of the sound period until the 1960s, something he explores in his monograph Ireland's Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (2009).