Manchester University Press
1 Making space for a neglected visual history
Abstract
Chapter 1 introduces this fifty year survey of amateur film practice, outlining the hobby’s evolution, changing popular appeal and varied uses as a personal record of domestic and family life, holiday and overseas travel diary, chronicle of local and regional events, continuities and changes, and also as a creatively used medium for non-professional documentary and fictional productions. An outline of the book’s structure and key themes are introduced. Important interdisciplinary frames of reference and contexts are identified so that discussion of how people made and showed amateur films is set within a broader consideration of personal record-making, film history, identity, memory, cultural and social change and also changing visual and archive practice.
Abstract
Chapter 1 introduces this fifty year survey of amateur film practice, outlining the hobby’s evolution, changing popular appeal and varied uses as a personal record of domestic and family life, holiday and overseas travel diary, chronicle of local and regional events, continuities and changes, and also as a creatively used medium for non-professional documentary and fictional productions. An outline of the book’s structure and key themes are introduced. Important interdisciplinary frames of reference and contexts are identified so that discussion of how people made and showed amateur films is set within a broader consideration of personal record-making, film history, identity, memory, cultural and social change and also changing visual and archive practice.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Series introduction v
- Contents vii
- List of illustrations viii
- General editor's foreword ix
- Preface and acknowledgements xi
- List of abbreviations xiv
- FIlm title conventions xv
- 1 Making space for a neglected visual history 1
- 2 The amateur club scene 28
- 3 The rise of a hobby press 62
- 4 Family life as fact and fiction 92
- 5 Local lives and communities 118
- 6 Gazing at other people working 143
- 7 An indispensable travel accessory 175
- 8 Socially engaged filmmaking 208
- 9 Moving pictures, moving on 238
- Bibliography 251
- Index 273
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Series introduction v
- Contents vii
- List of illustrations viii
- General editor's foreword ix
- Preface and acknowledgements xi
- List of abbreviations xiv
- FIlm title conventions xv
- 1 Making space for a neglected visual history 1
- 2 The amateur club scene 28
- 3 The rise of a hobby press 62
- 4 Family life as fact and fiction 92
- 5 Local lives and communities 118
- 6 Gazing at other people working 143
- 7 An indispensable travel accessory 175
- 8 Socially engaged filmmaking 208
- 9 Moving pictures, moving on 238
- Bibliography 251
- Index 273
