Home Movies Hardly Silent
Unlocking Our Deaf Folklife Films
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 July 2025
- ISBN 9780197663172
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 15x156x235 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 b&w halftones 601
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Short description:
Home Movies Hardly Silent is an in-depth study and analysis of Deaf-made home movies during the silent era of amateur filmmaking (1925-1970s), showing how Deaf people used film technology to textualize sign language
MoreLong description:
This book on Deaf made home movies takes readers on a journey through the first fifty years of filmmaking (from 1925 through the 1970s), highlighting how the American Deaf community utilized silent film technology. Home movies and the visual nature of emerging cinema technology of the time afforded Deaf people the opportunity, one that went largely unrealized by others outside of their community, to capitalize on this novel technology wherein all cultural activities preserved and shared on film were naturally embedded with sign language, therefore debunking the widely held belief that these home movies are silent only because they are without sound. Home Movies Hardly Silent covers the histories, methods and analysis of a significant area of filmmaking that is understudied.
This book offers an introduction to Deaf Studies for undergraduate and graduate students, ethnographic ideas for Deaf Studies and folklore researchers, psycholinguistic data of baby deaf signers for early childhood educators, and deaf culture information for the general reader.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Dwight Swanson
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: How Amateur Filmmaking Technology Gave the Deaf Their Voice
Chapter 3: Krauel's Journey as Amateur Filmmaker Pioneer
Chapter 4: On the Authenticity of Amateur Filmmaking and Deaf Folklife
Chapter 5: Designing Ethnographic Methodology for Manifesting Deaf Voice
Chapter 6: Fundamentals for Organizing Film Collections
Chapter 7: Theme Based Ethnographic Analysis
Chapter 8: Tweaking Ethnographic Paradigms and Views
Chapter 9: Leaving a Cinematic Legacy through Sign Language
Chapter 10: Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
