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Mining the Home Movie : Excavations in Histories and Memories

Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history. It defines a genre of film studies and establishes the home movie as a tool for extracting historical and social insights

eBook, English, 2007
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007