Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film

by Patricia R. Zimmermann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253368766
• ISBN13: 9780253368768
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Non-fiction film theory at its best!!!

Dr. Zimmermann is the leading expert of amateur film theory in the ENTIRE WORLD. Pretty impressive, huh? I would rank this among the 25 most important books a film student needs to read before graduating college. You go Patruska!!!