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| In: | Film History, 19, 2007, 4, p. 361-371 |
| published: |
Indiana University Press and John Libbey Publishing
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| Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
| Physical Description: | 361-371 |
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| ISSN: |
0892-2160
1553-3905 |
| published in: | Film History |
| Language: | English |
| Collection: | sid-55-col-jstorfilm sid-55-col-jstoras5 JSTOR Film and Performing Arts JSTOR Arts & Sciences V Archive |
<p>Home movie-making developed into a new ritual grounded within the family, using available consumer technology to construct one's own domestic ideals. This essay examines how amateurs considered religious ideals as well. A collection of home movies from the 1920s and 1930s illustrates how one Dutch Catholic father of fourteen children used his small-gauge film camera to express his lived experience in terms of official Catholic discourse.</p> |