Acknowledgments

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures / Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez

Part I: Medium Specificity and Expanded Media Ecologies

1. Understanding (Amateur) Cinema: Epistemology and Technology / Benoît Turquety

2. Crossing the Amateur Line: The Lesson of Even¿As You and I / James Rosenow

3. "I Give You a Toast to the Pioneers!" The Movie Maker Ten Best Video Competition 1982-1983 / Graeme R. Spurr

4. From Insiders to Outsiders: Tracing Amateurism in Chinese Independent Documentary of the 1990s and the 2000s / Margherita Viviani

Part II: Institutions, Industry, and the State

5. Seeking Advice: A Political Economy of Israeli Commemorative Home Videos / Laliv Melamed

6. Amateur Film in the Factory: Forms and Functions of Amateur Cinema in Corporate Media Culture / Yvonne Zimmermann

7. The Ambitions of Amateur Film in Vichy France / Julie Guillaumot

8. On the Amateur Origins of Fernando Birri's Documentary School of Santa Fe / Mariano Mestman and Christopher Moore

Part III: Politics of Legitimization and Subversion

9. The Wind from the South: Experiences of Substandard Filmmaking in Galicia in the 1970s / Pablo La Parra-Pérez

10. Super 8 in Mexico / Jesse Lerner

11. The Videogiornale: Social Movements and Amateur Media Technologies in Bologna Between the Late 1980s and the Early 1990s / Diego Cavallotti

12. "A Vital Human Place" for the Counterculture: Fifth Estate and Amateur Film Culture in Detroit, 1965-1967 / Joseph DeLeon

13. Ingvars Leitis's Subversive Ethnographic Documentaries, 1975¿1989: Cover Stories and National Representation in Soviet Latvia / Inese Strupule

Part IV: Transnational Networks: Amateur Cinema Travels

14. Worldly Matters: Distributed Histories of Tunisian Amateur Cinema and the Screening of Nontheatrical Film / Samhita Sunya

15. Early International Super 8 Film Festivals: The Case of Caracas 1976-1980 / Isabel Arredondo

16. A Gift to Mother: "The Most Universally Appealing Kind of Film That Any Amateur Can Hope to Make" / Maria Vinogradova

17. Postcards from Yiddishland: Amateur Filmmaking and Vernacular Yiddish Culture / Rachel Webb Jekanowski

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