{"product_id":"amateur-movie-making-aesthetics-of-the-everyday-in-new-england-film-1915-1960-hardback-9780253025623","title":"Amateur Movie Making; Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960 (Hardback) 9780253025623","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmateur Movie Making\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartha J. McNamara (Edited by), Karan Sheldon (Edited by), Alice T. Friedman (Foreword by), Dino Everett (Contributions by), Libby Bischof (Contributions by), Justin Wolff (Contributions by), Whit Stillman (Contributions by), Karen Gracy (Contributions by), Charles Tepperman (Contributions by), Jennifer Neptune (Contributions by), Christopher Reed (Contributions by), Christopher Castiglia (Contributions by), Brian Jacobson (Contributions by), Martha White (Contributions by), Melissa Dollman (Contributions by), Janna Jones (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253025623\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 May 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 64 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmateur Movie Making\u003c\/i\u003e is Visual History at its best.\"—\u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An invaluable contribution to the study of previously overlooked nontheatrical films, \u003ci\u003eAmateur Movie Making \u003c\/i\u003eis a welcome addition to the overall field of media studies. Its focus on the everyday aspects of the material culture of the past along with its highly accessible and engaging writing will appeal to experts and non-experts alike.\"—\u003ci\u003eSociety for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award Committee. (2018 award winner)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[I]t is the love of cinema that shines through in these essays and the films themselves, making this book a must read for all of us.\"—\u003ci\u003eUCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"There is an old idea that amateur art is the purest, because it is made without consideration of money or fame. Here is the proof—vivid slices of real life as rich and rewarding as any gallery of Old Masters, rescued from obscurity through the extraordinary efforts of Northeast Historic Film. The essays in this volume, written in plain language, provide fresh insight into this still underappreciated art form. Like great paintings, the films themselves are impossible to forget\"—Phillip Prodger, \u003ci\u003eHead of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This remarkable collection of essays both documents and brings to life the contributions of amateur filmmakers in the Northeast region of the United States.As a group these practitioners, and the record of their work treated here, have helped to define aesthetic choices and expectations that have so thoroughly permeated the twentieth century and present era as to be sometimes invisible. This important study, itself reflecting a broad range of voices, performs the important work of bringing them back into view.\"—Anne Goodyear, \u003ci\u003eCo-Director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is important because it is interdisciplinary on every level, it focuses on the materiality of the films, it pays attention to how the films are constructed and what they mean, and it grounds itself in regional space as a zone of overlapping discourses.\"—Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film\u003cbr\u003e \"As the academic study of amateur and home movies enters into a more mature phase, it has become ever more apparent that such films can only be understood by understanding the various contexts of their production—who shot the films when, where, and why?—and their reception in the family or larger groups. Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon's Amateur Movie Making: The Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960, is the first volume to provide analyses of a group of amateur films which are available for study, making the volume an excellent reader for courses on amateur film.\"—Jan-Christopher Horak, \u003ci\u003eDirector, UCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive, Professor, Critical \u0026amp; Media Studies, Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"At first blush, \u003ci\u003eAmateur Movie Making\u003c\/i\u003e's subtitle,\u003ci\u003e Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960\u003c\/i\u003e, might suggest a narrowly defined field of inquiry with limited appeal to a broader audience. But readers would be remiss to dismiss such a delightful and expansive volume that resonates far beyond the realm of amateur film. One of \u003ci\u003eAmateur Movie Making\u003c\/i\u003e's greatest strengths is its addition of materials that animate the films in surprising ways.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Cinema and Media Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, \u003ci\u003eAmateur Movie Making\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually expressive qualities of films produced in New England between 1915 and 1960 and held in the collections of Northeast Historic Film, a moving image repository and study center that was established to collect, preserve, and interpret the audiovisual record of northern New England. Contributors from diverse backgrounds examine the visual aesthetics of these films while placing them in their social, political, and historical contexts. Each discussion is enhanced by technical notes and the analyses are also juxtaposed with personal reflections by artists who have close connections to particular amateur filmmakers. These reflections reanimate the original private contexts of the home movies before they were recast as objects of study and artifacts of public history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccessing Moving Images \u003cbr\u003e Foreword \/ Alice T. Friedman\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Martha McNamara and Karan Sheldon \u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Locating Contexts: Archive, Material, History, Place \u003cbr\u003e 1. A Place for Moving Images: Thirty Years of Northeast Historic Film \/ Karan Sheldon\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Technologies of Home Movies and Amateur Film \/ Dino Everett \u003cbr\u003e 3. A Region Apart: Representations of Maine and Northern New England in Personal Film, 1920-1940 \/ Libby Bischof\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Strange Familiarity: Alexander Forbes and the Aesthetics of Amateur Film \/ Justin Wolff\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Creative Choices: Recovering Value in Amateur Film \u003cbr\u003e Reflection 1. The Task at Hand: The Films of Ernest Stillman \/ Whit Stillman\u003cbr\u003e 5. Midway Between Secular and Sacred: Consecrating the Home Movie as a Cultural Heritage Object \/ Karen Gracy\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"All the Wonderful Possibilities of Motion Pictures\": Hiram Percy Maxim and the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking \/ Charles Tepperman \u003cbr\u003e 7. Comedic Counterpoise: Landscape and Laughs in the Films of Sidney N. Shurcliff \/ Martha J. McNamara \u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Everyday Lives: Home and Work in Amateur Film\u003cbr\u003e Reflection 2. Perspectives on the Home Movies of Charles Norman Shay, Penobscot Elder \/ Jennifer Neptune\u003cbr\u003e 8. Not-at-Home Movies \/ Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed \u003cbr\u003e 9. The Boss's Film: Expert Amateurs and Industrial Culture \/ Brian Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Families: Private and Public\u003cbr\u003e Reflection 3. \"The Ring of Time\" in the E. B. White Home Movies \/ Martha White\u003cbr\u003e 10. Opening the Can: Home Movies In the Public Sphere \/ Melissa Dollman \u003cbr\u003e 11. 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