Amateur film and amateur media practices have attracted increasing interest in recent decades in the context of the visual turn. Questions of agency, participatory and political/militant film practices, and of representations of “self” and “other” are of interest as well as the institutions and networks of amateur productions. This special issue of zeitgeschichte contributes to this field of research by examining international and transnational developments of amateur films in the period after the Second World War. The collected contributions analyze national specifics and regional shapings of practices as well as cultural constructions in amateur film and video, they trace transnational entanglements of amateur media and tackle cross-border amateur filmmaking and internationally and globally shared discursive references and uses of metaphors in video activism. The authors elaborate parallels to organizational structures in amateur film practices in specific sociopolitical and cultural contexts and discuss aspects of memory and the appropriation of hegemonic visual cultures in individual film practices.
Contents
Michaela Raggam-BleschNachruf auf Heidemarie Uhl (1956–2023) 315
Hanna Stein / Renée Winter / Heidrun ZettelbauerEditorial 319
Articles
Renée WinterVideo as a Weapon, Extension, Mirror, Catalyst, and Virus: Transnational Metaphors and Concepts in Video Movements in the 1970s and 1980s 325
Paulina HaratykIn/Dependent Activity of the Amateur Film Clubs Movement during the Period of the Polish People’s Republic 347
Julia WackR.I.P. – Transnational Historical Amateur Film Memorials of the Revival and Decline of the Industries Uniting the Greater Region 369
Hanna SteinHeroes from the Past and Harbingers of the Future: Yugoslav History Politics in and through Amateur Film Practices 395
zeitgeschichte extra
Viktoria WindA “New Kind of Soldiering”. The Social Democratic Construction of Military Masculinity in the Austrian Volkswehr (1918–1920) 417
Abstracts439
Reviews
Richard HufschmiedElena Messner/Peter Pirker (Hrsg.), Kriege gehören ins Museum, aber wie? 445
Eckhard JesseTillmann Bendikowski, Hitlerwetter. Das ganz normale Leben in der Diktatur: Die Deutschen und das Dritte Reich 1938/39 449
Alexander PinwinklerLinda Erker, Die Universität Wien im Austrofaschismus. Österreichische Hochschulpolitik 1933 bis 1938, ihre Vorbedingungen und langfristigen Nachwirkungen (Schriften des Archivs der Universität Wien 29) 451
Authors455