New book, Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960. Essays by a dozen authors—with online viewing of titles from NHF Collections , www.oldfilm.org/amm. Indiana University Press, 2017 and available from bookstores, Amazon, B&N, Google Play, iBooks.
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Northeast Historic Film is pleased to announce that Tara Merenda Nelson, Curator of Moving Image Collections at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, has been awarded the 2019 annual research fellowship. The William O'Farrell Fellowship is awarded each year to an individual to conduct research at NHF toward a publication, production or presentation based on moving image history and culture. The O'Farrell Fellowship is sponsored by Jim Lindner, a friend of Bill O’Farrell as well as a long-time mentor, and supporter of the archives.
During her fellowship, Nelson will view numerous amateur film collections held at NHF.
Her research is centered around the practice of amateur filmmakers presenting their ‘home movies’ to larger audiences as a way...
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