9/14 W1 Introduction and Overview of the Course

Basic Understanding

9/21 W2 Definition and Related Discourses
• Chalfen, R. (1986), The Home Movie in a World of Reports: an Anthropological Appreciation, Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 38, No.3/4, Home Movies and Amateur Filmmaking (Summer-Fall 1986), pp.102-110.
• Szezelkun (2000), The Value of Home Movies, Oral History, Vol. 28, No. 2, Memory and Place (Autumn, 2000), pp. 94-98.
• Center for Home Movies (2010), The Home Movie Digitization and Access Summit Final Report.

9/28 W3 Small-gauge Film Formats
• Home movie transition from the analog to the digital.
• Introduction of several small-gauge film formats in general, including 16mm, regular 8, and super 8.
• Museum of Obsolete Media https://obsoletemedia.org/

10/5 W4 The Makers and their Home Movies/Amateur Film
• Ch1 Money or Pleasure in Zimmermann, P. R. (1995). Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film. Indiana University Press.

10/12 W5 The Movie Camera and the Consumer Society
• Zimmermann, P. (1988), Trading Down: Amateur Film Technology in the 1950's America, Screen, pp. 17-29.
• Screening: Beyond the Bolex (2018)

10/19 W6 Oral Presentation
• Amateur camera: basic introduction, history, and its technical evolution.

Home Movies/Amateur Film in Western Culture

10/26 W7 Home Movies in the USA’s National Film Registry
• Ch8 Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura “Something Strong Within: A Visual Essay,” Ch9 Robert Rosen “Something Strong Within as Historical Memory,” ch12 L. Ishizuka & P. R. Zimmermann “The Home Movie and the National Film Registry” in L. Ishizuka & P. R. Zimmermann (eds.) (2008), Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. University of California Press.
• Screening: Something strong within, 1994

11/2 W8 Library of Congress’s Internet Archive
• Brosnahan, C. (2017), Personalizing the Past: History Through Home Movies. PBS Social article. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/personalizing-past-interview-rick-prelinger/
• Screening: Lost Landscapes of Detroit, 2010

11/9 W9 Wu San Tou Student Film Festival

11/16 W10 When Private Home Movies Find Their Way into Public Archives: Several Case Studies
• Northeast Historic Film https://oldfilm.org/
• The South Side Home Movie Project https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/

11/23 W11 Home Movie Day and Nigth: 24-hour Marathon
• Center for Home Movies. https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/yours/
• Screening: Home Movie Day and Night: 24-hour Marathon.

11/30 W12 Practice of Film Examination and Preservation: 8mm film made in the western culture

Home Movies/Amateur Film in Taiwan

12/7 W13 Early Home Movies in the Japanese Colonial Taiwan
• 電影欣賞2023年1月份出版
• Liu Na-Ou’s Man with a Camera (9.5mm)
• Teng Nang-Guang’s 8mm home movies (8mm)

12/14 W14 The Home Movie Makers in the Post-war Taiwan

12/21 W15 The Home Movie Campaign in Taiwan: From 2013 to the Present
• Hsieh, Y. E. (2018) Media Archiving as Critical Pedagogy: A Road to Awareness – Saving Home Movies Campaign in Taiwan. [Dissertation of the University of California, Los Angeles]
• 南灜影像資料庫 https://tainanfilmcenter.tw/index.php

12/28 W16 Practice of Film Examination and Preservation: 8mm film made in Taiwan

W17 Discussion: Making your own home movies by using your smartphone

W18 Home Movie Screening: Showing Your Own Home Movie