Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Pleasure or Money

2 Entrepreneurs, Artists, Hobbyists, and Workers: 1897-1923

3 Professional Results with Amateur Ease: 1923-1940

4 Cameras and Guns: 1941-1949

5 Do-It-Yourself: 1950-1962

6 Reinventing Amateurism

Notes
Index

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Charting the hidden history of amateur film.

About the Author

PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is also the author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies and has also published articles in Screen, Afterimage, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, The Independent, Genders, Wide Angle, and Current Research in Film.