Amateur cinema: the rise of North American movie making, 1923-1960

Abstract

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Contexts of Amateur Cinema 1. Cine-Prophecy: Emergence of Amateur Cinema (1892--1927) 2. Cine-Community: First Wave of Amateur Film Culture (1928--1945) 3. Cine-Engagement: Amateurs and Current Events 4. Cine-Technology: Machine Art for a Machine Age 5. Cine-Sincerity: Postwar Amateur Film Culture (1945--1960) Part II. Modes of Amateur Cinema 6. Communicating a New Form of Knowledge: Amateur Chronicles of Family, Community, and Travel 7. The Amateur Takes Leadership: Amateur Film, Experimentation, and the Aesthetic Vanguard 8. Mechanical Craftsmanship: Amateurs Making Practical Films 9. Photoplaying Themselves: Amateur Fiction Films Conclusion Appendix 1. Amateur Filmography Appendix 2. A Preliminary Directory of Movie Clubs Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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