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book		After taste : cultural value and the moving image / edited by Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. Call No: 62(04) AFT Source: K Place: Abingdon Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: viii, 173 pages ; 25 cm. Subject: B-MOVIES; CRITICISM; RECEPTION; AMATEUR FILMS; LOW BUDGET FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA Summary: In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies and has come to encompass disreputable and unworthy films – this trend has been evident in various formats: on television and in video-art, low-budget and straight to TV films, amateur and home movies. The proliferation of trash on screen can be seen as delivering the final blow to the vexed issue of taste. More importantly, it prompts a reconsideration of some critical issues surrounding production, circulation, understanding and teaching of ‘bad objects’ in the media. This collection of essays, written by international film and television scholars, provides detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new landscape of ‘after taste’ media. Addressing global and local developments – from global Hollywood to Australian indigenous film and television, through auteurs Sergei Eisenstein to Jerry Bruckheimer, on to examples such as Twilight to Sukiyaki Western Django – the essays in this book offer a range of critical tools for understanding the recent shifts affecting cultural, aesthetic and political value of the moving image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9780415845939 Contents: 1. Introduction: after taste: cultural value and the moving image / Julia Vassilieva and Constantine Verevis -- Part I: Critical methods and approaches. 2. `An idleness bordering on the wacky': Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema / Adrian Martin -- 3. Hollywood: bad cinema's bad `other' / Jane Mills -- 4. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: towards a phenomenology of bad film / Jane Stadler -- 5. Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! through time: historicizing value judgement / Julia Vassilieva -- Part II: Taste and value. 6. Transitional tastes: teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight / Lisa Bode -- 7. `Flesh dissolved in an acid of light': the B-movie as second sight / Simon Sellars -- 8. Making the commercial personal: the authorial value of Jerry Bruckheimer television / Tom Steward -- 9. Blowing chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice / Scott Wilson -- Part III: Feeling and affect. 10. Labours of love: home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship / Minette Hillyer -- 11. Dead time: cinema, Heidegger, and boredom / Richard Misek -- Part IV: Teaching bad objects forum. 12. Teaching bad objects: introduction / Jodi Brooks -- 13. The state of the discipline: film studies as bad object / Jodi Brooks -- 14. Beyond good/should/bad: teaching Australian Indigenous film and television / Therese Davis -- 15. Teaching Australian television studies / Belinda Smaill. More info
subject clippings file		AMATEUR FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: AMATEUR FILMS More info
book		Canon-fire! the art of making award-winning amateur movies / [by] Cecil Satariano London: Bachman and Turner, 1973. Call No: 22 SAT Author: Satariano, Cecil Place: London Publisher: Bachman and Turner PubDate: 1973 PhysDes: 74, [28] p. illus., ports. 23 cm Subject: AMATEUR FILMS; PRODUCTION ISBN: 0859740021 LON: 317370 More info
journal article		Discovering fragments of our past...the Grail Film Group : Amateur Australian women filmmakers of the 1930's and 1940's in Metro (2000) iss.123 p.18-24 Author: O'Sullivan, Mardie PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s) Subject: AMATEUR FILMS; GRAIL FILM GROUP, THE; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA Summary: The article examines the interplay between context, gender and cultural themes in the work of Australian women film-makers and photographers in the 1930's and 1940's. More info
Old collection book		Films in 1951 : a special publication on British films and film-makers for the Festival of Britain London: Published by Sight & Sound for the British Film Institute, [1951]. Call No: 71(41) FIL CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Published by Sight & Sound for the British Film Institute PubDate: [1951] PhysDes: 72 p. illus. 28 cm Subject: RANK ORGANISATION; CENSORSHIP. UK; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR. UK; SOCIETIES, FILM. UNITED KINGDOM; AMATEUR FILMS. UK; FESTIVALS. EDINBURGH; EDUCATION, FILM. UK; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; KORDA, ALEXANDER; EALING STUDIOS; REED, CAROL; CLARKE, T E B; CARDIFF, JACK; HARRIS, JACK; OLIVIER, LAURENCE; ALWYN, WILLIAM; HOBSON, VALERIE; BALCON, MICHAEL; Grierson, John Summary: Focuses on a number of different films, people, and areas within the British film industry at the time of publication. Notes: Includes list of film companies and studios -; Includes list of distribution and exhibition companies -; Includes list of production organisations -; Includes bibliography More info
book		Mining the home movie : excavations in histories and memories / edited by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmerman Berkely and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2008. Call No: 721.210.8 MIN Author: Ishizuka, Karen L; Zimmerman, Patricia R Source: US Place: Berkely and Los Angeles, California Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: 2008 PhysDes: xix, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: AMATEUR FILMS; HOME MOVIES; COMPILATION FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; WITTGENSTEIN TRACTATUS (HU, Peter Foracs, 1992); SONG OF AIR (AT, Merilee Bennett, 1987); MAELSTROM, THE (NE, Peter Forgacs, 1997); [NINETY] 90 MILES (US, Juan Carlos Zaldivar, 2001); SOMETHING STRONG WITHIN (US, Robert A. Nakamura, 1994) Notes: Outgrowth of an international symposium at the Getty Center, Los Angeles in 1998, called The past as present: the home movie as cinema of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index Includes filmography and videography: p. 289-297 ISBN: 9780520248076 Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009 Contents: 1 Remaking home movies: Richard Fung -- 2 The human studies film archives, Smithonian institution: John Homiak and Pamela Wintle -- 3 Wittgenstein Tractatus: personal reflections on home movies: Peter Forgacs -- 4 La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autonama de Mexico: Ivan Trujillo -- 5 Ordinary film: Peter Forgac's The Maelstrom: Michael S. Roth -- 6 The imperial war musueum film and video archive: Kay Gladstone -- 7 90 Miles: The politics and aesthetics of personal documentary: Amy Villarejo -- 8 The Florida moving image archive: Steven Davidson -- 9 Something strong within: a visual essay: Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A Nakamura -- 10 something strong within us as historical memory: Robert Rosen -- 11 the moving image archive of Japanese American National Museum: Karen L. Ishizuka -- 12 The home movie and the film registry: The story of topaz: karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R Zimmerman -- 13 The Nederlands archive/Museum institute: Nico de Klerk -- 14 Home away from home: private films from the old Dutch East Indies: Nico de Klerk -- 15 The Library of Congress: Brian Taves -- 16 -- Detoriating memories: blurring fact and fiction in home movies in India: Ayisha Abraham -- 17 The movie queen: Northeast historic film: Karan Sheldon and Dwight Swanson -- 18 The WPA film library: Carolyn Faber -- 19 Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta: Karen Glynn -- 20 The Academy film archive: Lynne Kirste -- 21 "As if by magic" : Authority, aesthetics, and visions of the workplace in home movies, circa 1931-1949: Heather Norris Nicholson -- 22 The New Zealand FIlm archive/Nga Kaitiaki o Ngta: Taonga Whitiahua -- 23 Working people, topical Films, and home movies: the case of the North-West Film Archives: Maryann Gomes -- 24 the oregon state historical society's moving images archives: Michele Kribs -- 25 Reflections on the family home movie as document: a semi-pragmatic approach: Roger Odin -- 26 The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film and television archive - Ross Lipman -- 27 Morphing history in histories: from amateur film to the archive of the future: Patricia R. Zimmerman More info
book		Personal filmmaking / James Piper Reston, VA: Reston Publishing, 1975. Call No: 22(07.7) PIP Author: Piper, James Source: US Place: Reston, VA Publisher: Reston Publishing PubDate: 1975 PhysDes: 269 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: FILMMAKING; AMATEUR FILMS Summary: "Explains how to produce movies with low-cost, accessible 8mm equipment and ordinary homw or school recording equipment. Includes scripting, shooting, editing and preparing sound tracks" -- tp verso Notes: Includes index; Includes three screenplays - "The cross walk" by Dave Cutter, "The rabbit theory' by Joan E. Carter, and "The first and last day" by Larry Foster ISBN: 0879096128 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: Chapter one : Selecting equipment -- Chapter two : Ideas for films -- Chapter three : Scripting and planning -- Chapter four : Directing and acting -- Chapter five : Shooting: technical matters -- Chapter six : Shooting: creative options -- Chapter seven : Editing -- Chapter eight : The possibilities of sound -- Chapter nine : Screening - and film festivals -- Chapter ten : What next? More info

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