Mining the Home Movie

Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer, curator, and documentary producer and is the author of Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (2006). Patricia R. Zimmerman is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000).

• List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction. The Home Movie Movement: Excavations, Artifacts, Minings--Patricia R. Zimmermann 1. Remaking Home Movies--Richard Fung 2. The Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution--John Homiak and Pamela Wintle 3. Wittgenstein Tractatus: Personal Reflections on Home Movies--Peter Forgacs 4. La Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico--Ivan Trujillo 5. Ordinary Film: Peter Forgacs's The Maelstrom--Michael S. Roth 6. The Imperial War Museum 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 as Historical Memory--Robert Rosen 11. The Moving Image Archive of the Japanese American National Museum--Karen L. Ishizuka 12. The Home Movie and the National Film Registry: The Story of Topaz--Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann 13. The Nederlands Archive/Museum Institute--Nico de Klerk 14. Home Away from Home: Private Films from the Dutch East Indies--Nico de Klerk 15. The Library of Congress--Brian Taves 16. Deteriorating 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 Nga Taonga Whitiahua--Virginia Callanan 23. Working People, Topical Films, and Home Movies: The Case of the North West Film Archive--Maryann Gomes 24. The Oregon State Historical Society's Moving Image Archives--Michele Kribs 25. Reflections on the Family Home Movie as Document: A Semio-Pragmatic Approach--Roger Odin 26. The Stephen Lighthill Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive--Ross Lipman 27. Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future--Patricia R. Zimmermann Selected Filmography and Videography Selected Bibliography Contributors Index