Making Visual Histories:
Critical Perspectives on Amateur Film Practice

Friday 14 September 2007
A day conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

Abstracts

STEVE HAWLEY (Manchester Metropolitan University) The Outsider: The films of GHF Higginson

RYAN SHAND (University of Glasgow ) ‘Children in Charge’: The Use of Child Actors in the Amateur ‘Film Play’

SALLA TENKANEN (University of Turku) Children as Amateur Filmmakers

JULIA HALLAM (University of Liverpool) Mapping City Space: Independent Filmmakers as Urban Gazetteers

MARIA PINI (Institute of Education, University of London) Beyond the Home Mode

DANIEL CUZNER (Institute of Education, University of London) The twilight world of the amateur film club

REBEKAH WILLETT ( University of London) Parodic practices: Amateur spoofs on video sharing sites

RAY JOHNSON (Director, Staffordshire Film Archive) The Time Machine: Papering over the Cracks

IAN CRAVEN (University of Glasgow) Roadside And Other Dramas: The Amateur Story Film

RACHAEL LANGFORD (Cardiff University) How amateur films of French colonialism construct African space and place

DANIEL WHISTLER (University of Central England) Of different metal: amateur film against television documentary in the ruined forge