Outgrowth of an international symposium at the Getty Center, Los Angeles in 1998, called The past as present: the home movie as cinema of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index. Includes filmorgaphy and videography: p. 289-297
Contents:
Morphing history into histories : from amateur film to the archive of the future / Patricia R. Zimmermann. The human studies film achives, Smithsonian Institution / John Homiak, Pamela Wintle -- Wittgenstein tractactus : personal reflections on home movies / Péter Forgács -- La filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico / Iván Trujillo -- Ordinary film : Péter Forgác's The maelstrom / Michael S. Roth -- The imperial war museum film and video archive / Kay Gladstone -- 90 miles : the politics and aethetics of personal documentary / Amy Villarejo -- The Florida moving image archive / Steven Davidson -- Something strong within : a visual essay / Karen L. Ishizuka, Robert A. Nakamura -- Something strong within as historical memory / Robert Rosen -- The moving image archive of the Japanese American National Museum / Karen L. Ishizuka -- The home movie and the National Film Registry : The story of topaz / Karen L. Ishizuka, Patricia R. Zimmermann -- The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute / Nico de Klerk -- Home away from home : private films from the Dutch East Indies / Nico de Klerk -- The library of congress / Brian Taves -- Deteriorating memories : blurring fact and fiction in home movies in India / Ayisha Abraham -- The movie queen : Northeast historic film / Karan Sheldon, Dwight Swanson -- The WPA film library / Carolyn Faber -- Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta / Karen Glynn -- The academy film archive / Lynne Kirste -- "As if by magic" : authority, aesthetics, and visions of the workplace in home movies, circa 1931-1949 / Heather Norris Nicholson -- The New Zealand film archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua / Virginia Callanan -- Working people, topical rims, and home movies : the case of the North West Film Archive / Maryann Gomes -- The Oregon State Historical Society's moving image archives / Michele Kribs -- Reflections on the family home movie as document : a semio-pragmatic approach / Roger Odin -- The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive / Ross Lipman -- Morphing history into histories : from amateur film to the archive of the future / Patricia R. Zimmermann.
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