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Author: Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes ,
Zoë Viney Burgess
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.800kg
ISBN: 9781032970936
ISBN 10: 1032970936
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 08 October 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“A must-read for film scholars, archivists, and curators interested in 9.5mm film as a groundbreaking amateur gauge and its diverse histories of use. This volume offers a timely and comprehensive study of a technologically and historically significant participatory medium, shedding unique light on the roots of today’s digital media culture.” Dr Tim van der Heijden, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Open University of the Netherlands ""It is wonderful to see this great variety of contributions about the famous 9.5mm film format, collected in one volume. 9.5mm stimulated not just one specific small gauge culture but found various shapes and forms in different countries and eras. The editors greatly assembled the existing scholarship, also proving along the way that amateur media scholarship keeps on growing."" Professor Susan Aasman, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Groningen. “This anthology offers a groundbreaking exploration of the 9.5mm amateur film culture, tracing its evolution from 1922 to the present, and highlights the Pathé Baby's original significance in the growing interest in small gauges formats. Owing to its interdisciplinary insights, the volume emphasises the significance of participatory media before the digital age. An essential read for media scholars.” Dr Mirco Santi, President INEDITS European Association, and Co-Founder of Fondazione Home Movies-Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia (Bologna, Italy)
Author Information
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is based at the University of Cambridge as a visual theorist, academic supervisor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Fellow of Clare Hall, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. Her ongoing research and publications address questions of visual literacy and trauma, amateur media, and the anthropology of memory and migration. Zoë Viney Burgess completed her PhD in film at the University of Southampton (2024). She works simultaneously as a film curator at Wessex Film and Sound Archive, Winchester (UK), and as a senior research fellow in Screen Archives at the University of West London’s Public Research Institute of Screen and Music (PRISM).
