Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film

ISBN-13: 9780748656349 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str.

Ryan Shand

Opis

What do you understand by the term 'home movie'? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family? Did you know that amateur filmmakers have also explored fictional genres as diverse and fascinating as their professional counterparts, that specific amateur film studios have risen and fallen, or that household-name directors owe their origins and inspirations to the amateur film movement? Across a range of settings from the Canadian north-west to the Russian far-east, this book offers an introduction to the amateur maker of film comedies, thrillers, adaptations and sci-fi. It records the ambitions and achievements of enthusiasts struggling to emulate the mainstream and tell their own stories, armed with limited resources and endless initiative.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Ambitions and Arguments: Exploring Amateur Cinema through Fiction, Ryan Shand; Part I: Framing Fiction, Chapter One; Historical, Aesthetic, Cultural: The Problematical Value of Amateur Cine Fiction, Guy Edmonds; Chapter Two, Sewell, Rose, and the Aesthetics of Amateur Cine Fiction, Ian Craven; Chapter Three, Crafting Life Into Film: Analysing Family Fiction Films From The 1930s, Martina Roepke; Chapter Four, Framing the Welfare State: Swedish Amateur Fiction Film 1930-1965, Mats Jönsson; Part II: Studio Sensibilities, Chapter Five, Occupying a Distinguished but Lonely Place in the Amateur Movement: Ace Movies 1929 – 1964, Francis Dyson; Chapter Six, ‘High Art’ Locally: The Screen Adaptations of IuG-Film, Maria Vinogradova; Chapter Seven, Brazilian Amateur Cinema and Fictional Films from Foto-Cine Clube Gaúcho, Lila Foster; Part III: Single-Minded Scenarios; Chapter Eight, ‘This is not Hollywood!’: Peter Watkins and the Challenge of Amateurism to the Professional, John R. Cook; Chapter Nine, ‘Start as You Mean to Go On: Ken Russell’s Early Amateur Films’, Brian Hoyle; Chapter Ten, ‘The Nocturnal Affairs of Mr Miletić: Authorship, Genre and Cine-Amateurism in Yugoslavia’ , Greg de Cuir, Jr. ; Part IV: Genres and Genericity; Chapter Eleven, The Aesthetic of the Possible: The Green Cockatoo as Bricolage of Heterogeneous Traditions, Siegfried Mattl and Vrääth Öhner; Chapter Twelve, The Fragile Magic of the Home: Amateur Domestic Comedies and the Intimate Geography of Childhood, Karen Lury; Chapter Thirteen, The Spence Brothers: Amateur Sci-Fi and Cine Culture in Northern Ireland, Ciara Chambers; Notes on Contributors; Index