[ecrea] 'Personal films in the Digital Space’ guest edited special issue

Amateur Cinema Studies Networkhttp://amateurcinemastudies.org) is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Personal films in the Digital Space’, a guest edited special issue of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Vol. 11, Issue 2-3). This volume was prompted by the need to sample some of the themes, methodologies and critical developments currently explored in the field of amateur cinema/media studies and digital humanities. In choosing the term ‘personal film’ it has become possible to address the variegated film/visual sub-genres that constitute the current research corpus of amateur media studies. As a result, the articles selected for this issue address in a wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary framework constructions of private and/or public memory across 8mm home movies, video and digital amateur films, Skype and YouTube recordings, and experimental films. As a guest editor, and o
n behalf of ACSN, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes has invited the contributors to reflect on how personal films function as visual agents of private, national and global intimacies in the digital space of online archives and social networks, and to explore questions of research methodologies, archival practices, audience reception, self-reflexivity and cultural heritage. Please see below additional information about this special issue:

INTRODUCTION
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

ARTICLES
Video-making, Harlem Shaking: Theorizing the interactive amateur.
Abigail Keating.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17975

Impossible family portraits: Users, new media technologies and the writing of amateur media history.
Susan Aasman
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17968

Close to home: Privatization and personalization of militarized death in Israeli home videos.
Laliv Melamed
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17969

Of national ‘Significance’: Politicizing the home movies of the US National Film Registry.
Daniel Mauro
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17970

Ayisha Abraham’s Straight 8.
Lalitha Gopalan
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17971

> From the roof top into the mine.
Ayisha Abraham
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17972

How to keep our memories safe: ‘Changing platforms of ritualized memory practices. The cultural dynamics of home movies’ project, 2012–2015.
Susan Aasman

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