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The first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, Mining the Home Movie makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home moviemaking. These essays boldly combine primary research, archival collections, critical analyses, filmmakers' own stories, and new theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. Editors Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann have fashioned a groundbreaking volume that identifies home movies as vital methods of visually preserving history. The essays cover an enormous range of subject matter, defining an important genre of film studies and establishing the home movie as an invaluable tool for extracting historical and social insights.

Film archives. --- Amateur films --- Archives, Motion picture --- Motion picture archives --- Archives --- Motion picture film collections --- Amateur moving-pictures --- Home movies --- Personal films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Cinéma d'amateurs --- Archives cinématographiques --- Histoire et critique --- Film --- film --- homemovie --- amateur film. --- anthology. --- archival films. --- archives. --- critical analysis. --- essay collection. --- family memories. --- film analysis. --- film scholars. --- film students. --- film studies. --- film theory. --- filmmakers. --- firsthand accounts. --- historical significance. --- home movies. --- international perspective. --- moviemaking. --- nonfiction essays. --- personal documentaries. --- personal histories. --- personal memories. --- social insights. --- theoretical approach. --- visual essays. --- visual history.