Programme
Abstracts

Long neglected within conventional film studies, Britain’s amateur film movement is now receiving more recognition as a distinctive but still relatively little understood component of national cinematic history. Creating a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of visual moving history involves being able to share and explore aspects of the growing body of research that is taking place within Britain and elsewhere.

Anyone with interests in twentieth-century amateur cinema is invited to take part in this important exchange of critical perspectives on aspects of making and showing film to family, friends, cine club members and wider audiences. The event should appeal to newer and more established researchers as well as those with teaching interests in film and media history, popular culture, social, family, regional and cultural studies and photography. Whatever your disciplinary background, whatever film gauge you admire, and whatever your particular interests - technology, auto-biography, memory, identity, representational politics, animation, fiction or non-fiction, films of home life, holidays or overseas work or something entirely different - we hope that you will join us.

The event will take place in Geoffrey Manton building, All Saints campus, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6LL, within easy walking distance of stations with rail network connections to Manchester airport and all parts of the UK.

Programme queries to:
Heather Norris Nicholson
H.Norris-Nicholson@mmu.ac.uk

Enquiries and bookings to:
Craig Horner
c.horner@mmu.ac.uk

MCRH
MMU
Geoffrey Manton building
Manchester M15 6LL
UK

www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/mvh

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