Mining the Home Movie - Excavations in Histories and Memories

List of Illustrations xi Foreword xiii Karen L. Ishizuka Acknowledgments xvii Karen L. Ishizuka Patricia R. Zimmermann Introduction. The Home Movie Movement: Excavations, Artifacts, Minings 1(28) Patricia R. Zimmermann Remaking Home Movies 29(12) Richard Fung The Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution 41(6) John Homiak Pamela Wintle Wittgenstein Tractatus: Personal Reflections on Home Movies 47(10) Peter Forgacs La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 57(5) Ivan Trujillo Ordinary Film: Peter Forgacs's The Maelstrom 62(11) Michael S. Roth The Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive 73(5) Kay Gladstone 90 Miles: The Politics and Aesthetics of Personal Documentary 78(14) Amy Villarejo The Florida Moving Image Archive 92(6) Steven Davidson Something Strong Within: A Visual Essay 98(9) Karen L. Ishizuka Robert A. Nakamura Something Strong Within as Historical Memory 107(15) Robert Rosen The Moving Image Archive of the Japanese American National Museum 122(4) Karen L. Ishizuka The Home Movie and the National Film Registry: The Story of Topaz 126(16) Karen L. Ishizuka Patricia R. Zimmermann The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute 142(6) Nico de Klerk Home Away from Home: Private Films from the Dutch East Indies 148(15) Nico de Klerk The Library of Congress 163(5) Brian Taves Deteriorating Memories: Blurring Fact and Fiction in Home Movies in India 168(17) Ayisha Abraham The Movie Queen: Northeast Historic Film 185(6) Karan Sheldon Dwight Swanson The WPA Film Library 191(4) Carolyn Faber Mule Racing in the Mississippi Delta 195(14) Karen Glynn The Academy Film Archive 209(5) Lynne Kirste ``As If by Magic'': Authority, Aesthetics, and Visions of the Workplace in Home Movies, circa 1931--1949 214(17) Heather Norris Nicholson The New Zealand Film Archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua 231(4) Virginia Callanan Working People, Topical Films, and Home Movies: The Case of the North West Film Archive 235(14) Maryann Gomes The Oregon State Historical Society's Moving Image Archives 249(6) Michele Kribs Reflections on the Family Home Movie as Document: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach 255(17) Roger Odin The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive 272(3) Ross Lipman Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future 275(14) Patricia R. Zimmermann Selected Filmography and Videography 289(10) Liz Czach Selected Bibliography 299(10) Liz Czach List of Contributors 309(6) Index 315