Mining the Home Movie

The first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, Mining the Home Movie makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home moviemaking. These essays boldly combine primary research, archival collections, critical analyses, filmmakers' own stories, and new theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. Editors Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann have fashioned a groundbreaking volume that identifies home movies as vital methods of visually preserving history. The essays cover an enormous range of subject matter, defining an important genre of film studies and establishing the home movie as an invaluable tool for extracting historical and social insights.

Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer, curator, and documentary producer and is the author of Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (2006). Patricia R. Zimmerman is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000).

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Home Movie Movement: Excavations, Artifacts, MiningsPatricia R. Zimmermann
1. Remaking Home MoviesRichard Fung
2. The Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian InstitutionJohn Homiak and Pamela Wintle
3. Wittgenstein Tractatus: Personal Reflections on Home MoviesPer Forgs
4. La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Automa de MicoIv Trujillo
5. Ordinary Film: Per Forgss The MaelstromMichael S. Roth
6. The Imperial War Museum Film and Video ArchiveKay Gladstone
7. 90 Miles: The Politics and Aesthetics of Personal DocumentaryAmy Villarejo
8. The Florida Moving Image ArchiveSteven Davidson
9. Something Strong Within: A Visual EssayKaren L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura
10. Something Strong Within as Historical MemoryRobert Rosen
11. The Moving Image Archive of the Japanese American National MuseumKaren L. Ishizuka
12. The Home Movie and the National Film Registry: The Story of TopazKaren L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann
13. The Nederlands Archive/Museum InstituteNico de Klerk
14. Home Away from Home: Private Films from the Dutch East IndiesNico de Klerk
15. The Library of CongressBrian Taves
16. Deteriorating Memories: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Home Movies in IndiaAyisha Abraham
17. The Movie Queen: Northeast Historic FilmKaran Sheldon and Dwight Swanson
18. The WPA Film LibraryCarolyn Faber
19. Mule Racing in the Mississippi DeltaKaren Glynn
20. The Academy Film ArchiveLynne Kirste
21. As If by Magic: Authority, Aesthetics, and Visions of the Workplace in Home Movies, circa 19311949Heather Norris Nicholson
22. The New Zealand Film Archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga WhitiahuaVirginia Callanan
23. Working People, Topical Films, and Home Movies: The Case of the North West Film ArchiveMaryann Gomes
24. The Oregon State Historical Societys Moving Image ArchivesMichele Kribs
25. Reflections on the Family Home Movie as Document: A Semio-Pragmatic ApproachRoger Odin
26. The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television ArchiveRoss Lipman
27. Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the FuturePatricia R. Zimmermann

Selected Filmography and Videography
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index