From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn’t until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and by the 1950s, over a million Americans had amateur movie cameras. In <I>Amateur Cinema,</I> Charles Tepperman explores the meaning of the «amateur» in film history and modern visual culture.<BR /><BR /> In the middle decades of the twentieth century—the period that saw...
