Reel Families

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Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet musicvideos recycle home movies as authenticity, commercials copy its style to sellintimacy, documentaries use it to recount history "frombelow."Reel Families is the first historical study of amateurfilm, the most pervasive of media. Patricia Zimmerman charts the history of thismedium from 1897 to the present, examining how ideological, technical, and socialconstraints have stunted amateur film's potential for extending media productionbeyond corporate monopolies and into the hands of everyday people. She draws on anarray of sources -- camera manufacturers, patents, early film and photographytechnology journals, amateur filmmaking magazines, professional magazines, andfamily-oriented popular magazines -- to investigate how the concept of amateur filmwas transformed within evolving contexts of technology, aesthetics, socialrelations, and politics.