Saving Private Reels: An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image, University College Cork, 17-18 September 2010

This conference aims to explore the pressing issues of the use, presentation, appropriation and re-contextualisation of the amateur moving image, of our relationship with it, both historically and today, and of the senses and meanings of its encounters with a variety of contexts, technologies and discourses.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Roger Odin, Professor of Sciences of Information and Communication at the Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, director of the Institut de Recherche en Cinéma et Audiovisuel (IRCAV), author of Le Film de famille (Méridiens-Klincksieck, 1995) and ‘Le Cinéma en amateur’, Communications, no 68, Seuil, 1999. At Paris III, he directs a research group on amateur cinema.

Patricia Zimmerman, Professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA, author of Reel Families: A Social History Of Amateur Film (Indiana, 1995) and co-editor of Mining The Home Movie: Excavations In Histories And Memories (California, 2008).

A conference part-funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, as part of the research project Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970

Email: ucchomemovies@gmail.com

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