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Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film
Ryan Shand
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Description for Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film
Hardcover. Small gauge film refers to formats such as 8m, Super 8 and 9.5mm. This book offers an introduction to the amateur maker of film comedies, thrillers, and sci-fi, recording the ambitions and achievements of enthusiasts struggling to emulate the mainstream, and tells their own stories, armed only with limited resources, but endless initiative. Editor(s): Shand, Ryan; Cravem, Ian. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
This book focusses on amateur fiction film-making. What do you understand by the term 'home movie'? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family? Did you know that amateur filmmakers have also explored fictional genres as diverse and fascinating as their professional counterparts, that specific amateur film studios have risen and fallen, or that household-name directors owe their origins and inspirations to the amateur film movement? Small gauge film refers to formats such as 8m, Super 8 and 9.5mm. Across a range of settings from the Canadian north-west to the Russian far ... Read more
This book focusses on amateur fiction film-making. What do you understand by the term 'home movie'? Do you imagine images of babies-on-the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, or travels with the family? Did you know that amateur filmmakers have also explored fictional genres as diverse and fascinating as their professional counterparts, that specific amateur film studios have risen and fallen, or that household-name directors owe their origins and inspirations to the amateur film movement? Small gauge film refers to formats such as 8m, Super 8 and 9.5mm. Across a range of settings from the Canadian north-west to the Russian far ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748656349
SKU
V9780748656349
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About Ryan Shand
Ryan Shand is Research Assistant on the AHRC - funded project 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland' based at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Ian Craven teaches Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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