Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture.
Yet music videos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials
copy its style to sell intimacy; documentaries use it to recount
history "from below."
Reel Families is the first historical study of amateur film, the
most pervasive of media. Patricia Zimmerman charts the history of
this medium from 1897 to the present, examining how ideological,
technical, and social constraints have stunted amateur film's
potential for extending media production beyond corporate
monopolies and into the hands of everyday people. She draws on an
array of sources camera manufacturers, patents, early film and
photography technology journals, amateur filmmaking magazines,
professional magazines, and family-oriented popular magazines to
investigate how the concept of amateur film was transformed within
evolving contexts of technology, aesthetics, social relations, and
politics."
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