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 speaker: 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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