Patricia R Zimmermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 640225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia R Zimmermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia R |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmermann |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMANN P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ithaca College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Morphing History into Histories: From Amateur Film to the Archive of the Future
Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics
Rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, US
This article reviews the 63rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Colgate University in the United States, which ran in late June 2017
Mapping Open Space to Visualize Other Knowledges
Mapping orientates and determines ways in which we perceive and understand the world and our place in it. Maps reveal and illuminate, but they also conceal and obfuscate. Early mapping projects like Benjamin Fry's Anemone (United States, 1999; http://benfry.com/anemone/) visualize connections between webpages, much like information-clouds visualize keywords today. Anemone maps and visualizes using the structure of a tree with branches, revealing …
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Tying the Arts Together
Research Article| January 01 2010 Tying the Arts Together Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is professor of cinema, photography, and media arts at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and the author of Reel Families: A Society History of Amateur Film and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies and coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. With Tom Shevory, she is codi…
Asian Film Archive at 5
Research Article| May 01 2010 Asian Film Archive at 5 Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is the author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies and Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film; and Coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2010) 37 (6): 3. https://doi.org/10.152…
Open Zones of Commonwealth
Research Article| November 01 2009 Open Zones of Commonwealth Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is a professor of cinema, photography, and media arts at Ithaca College; author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories; and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film F…
Cinema below the Border
Research Article| November 01 2009 Cinema below the Border Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is a professor of cinema, photography, and media arts at Ithaca College; author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories; and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Fest…
Taking Things Apart
Research Article| January 01 2009 Taking Things Apart: Locative Media, Migratory Archives, and Micropublics Dale Hudson, Dale Hudson DALE HUDSON is a visiting assistant professor of cinema and new media studies at Amherst College, Massachusetts. His work appears, or is forthcoming, in Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Screen, Studies in Documentary Film, and elsewhere. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Sch…
Beyond Desktops
Book Review| November 01 2008 Beyond Desktops Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools Edited By Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, Ollie OviedoMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press236 pp./$75.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb) Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is professor of cinema, photography and media arts at Ithaca College. Her books include Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana 1995), States of Emerge…
Imbedded Public Histories
Essay| April 01 2006 Imbedded Public Histories Precious Places, by Scribe Video Center 174 minutes, English, 2005 Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History' of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie (forthco…
Just Say No
Essay| August 01 2006 Just Say No: Negativland’s No Business Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York She is author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie (forthcoming in 2007). She is also co-director of the Finger Lakes …
Reverse Engineering
Essay| August 01 2006 Reverse Engineering: Dismantling and Customizing for the New Global Media Ecology Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zjmmermakn is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York, She is author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie (2006). She is also co…
Just Say No: Negativland's No Business
This essay reviews the new Negativland multimedia CD and DVD project No Business, examining how sonic landscapes are created out of plundering popular culture forms. No Business explores the contradictions between proprietary cultural forms and fair use practices, arguing for a notion of creative reappropriation for transformative use
Beyond CNN
Review| October 01 2005 Beyond CNN Asian Media Information and Communications Conference, Beijing, China, July 18-21, 2005 Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Kim (1995), States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (forthcoming in 2006). Search for other works b…
Blasting War
Essay| December 01 2002 Blasting War Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2002) 30 (3-4): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2002.30.3-4.4a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Patricia R. Zimmerma…
Matrixes of War
Essay| February 01 2001 Matrixes of War Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2001) 28 (4): 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2001.2…
Erik Barnouw, 1908-2001
On July 19, Erik Barnouw died his home in Vermont, with his wife Betty at his side. Erik had an inoperable cancer and had been in hospice. Betty says he was ready for life's next adventure. He was 93. Erik was a legendary, foundational presence in the media arts field. He was the preeminent media historian of the twentieth century. His scores of books include The International Encyclopedia of Communication (1989), Conglomerates and the Media (199…
Holding on to the Real
For two decades, I have taught cinema studies in an undergraduate program in a school of communications dedicated primarily to teaching and film production. These two categories summon profound philosophical debates and quite aggravated and contentious practical tensions about the epistemologies, social and political contexts, and intellectual groundings of media arts education that inform what I see as the of our profession of critical media art…
Sphere of Action
Review| June 01 1999 Sphere of Action Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, by B. Ruby RichDurham: Duke University Press, 1998, 419 pp./$59.95 (hb), $18.95 (sb) Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies…
Cinéma amateur et démocratie
Zimmermann Patricia. Cinéma amateur et démocratie. In: Communications, 68, 1999. Le cinéma en amateur, sous la direction de Roger Odin. pp. 281-292
Processing Trauma
Review| October 01 1998 Processing Trauma: The Media Art of Daniel Reeves Obsessive Becoming by Daniel Reeves Distributed by Video Data BankThe Hand That Holds Up All This Falling: The Works of Daniel Reeves, October 7- December 14, 1998, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College and author of Reel Families: A S…
Transnational Documentaries
Essay| February 01 1997 Transnational Documentaries: A Manifesto John Hess, John Hess Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann John Hess is co-editor of Jump Cut. PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995). Both teach in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. E-mail: [email protected]; patty@ithaca…
Fetal Tissue
Essay| January 01 1993 Fetal Tissue: Reproductive Rights Andamateur Activist Video Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is associate professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College, and is working on her next book, Endangered Species: Documentaries and Democracies, from which this article is excerpted. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1993) 21 (1): 10–13. h…
Hollywood, Home Movies, and Common Sense: Amateur Film as Aesthetic Dissemination and Social Control, 1950-1962
Appearing as a photograph caption in a 1950 Eastman Kodak manual entitled How to Make Good Movies, the exchange above between a husband and wife maneuvers through multiple discourses of the 1950s like a Rototiller in a suburban garden. These discourses include a notion that moviemaking was a family activity, an idea that filmmaking goals involved attainment of correct and sanctioned aesthetic norms, and an ideology that the rewards of leisure dem…
Trading Down: Amateur Film Technology in Fifties America
Journal Article Trading Down: Amateur Film Technology in Fifties America Get access Patricia R Zimmermann Patricia R Zimmermann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 40–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/29.2.40 Published: 01 March 1988
Seventeen
Other| May 01 1986 Seventeen: Race, Class, Sex and Spectatorship Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is assistant professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1986) 13 (10): 13–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1986.13.10.13 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer…
Filming Adventures in Beauty
Other| December 01 1986 Filming Adventures in Beauty: Pictorialism, Amateur Cinematography, and the Filmic Pleasures of the Nuclear Family from 1897 to 1923 Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is an assistant professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1986) 14 (5): 8–11. https://doi.org/10.…
Contested Terrain the Family Album
Review| June 01 1988 Contested Terrain the Family Album The Family Album by Alan Berliner distributed by Film-makers’ Cooperative (175 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016); and Filmakers Library (133 E. 58th St., New York, NY 10022). Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is an associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed …
Trading Down: Amateur Film Technology in Fifties America
Journal Article Trading Down: Amateur Film Technology in Fifties America Get access Patricia R Zimmermann Patricia R Zimmermann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 40–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/29.2.40 Published: 01 March 1988
Hollywood, Home Movies, and Common Sense: Amateur Film as Aesthetic Dissemination and Social Control, 1950-1962
Appearing as a photograph caption in a 1950 Eastman Kodak manual entitled How to Make Good Movies, the exchange above between a husband and wife maneuvers through multiple discourses of the 1950s like a Rototiller in a suburban garden. These discourses include a notion that moviemaking was a family activity, an idea that filmmaking goals involved attainment of correct and sanctioned aesthetic norms, and an ideology that the rewards of leisure dem…
Revolutionary Pleasures
Essay| March 01 1989 Revolutionary Pleasures: Wrecking the Text in Compilation Documentary Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is an associate professor in the department of cinema and photography at Ithaca College. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (8): 6–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.16.8.6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Our Trip to Africa
Essay| March 01 1990 Our Trip to Africa: Home Movies as the Eyes of the Empire Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is an associate professor in the department of cinema and photography at Ithaca College. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990) 17 (8): 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1990.17.8.4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppl…
Benevolent Assassination
Essay| June 01 1992 Benevolent Assassination: An Interview With Filipino Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmerm Ann is associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1992) 20 (1): 6–10. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.…
Fetal Tissue
Essay| January 01 1993 Fetal Tissue: Reproductive Rights Andamateur Activist Video Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is associate professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College, and is working on her next book, Endangered Species: Documentaries and Democracies, from which this article is excerpted. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1993) 21 (1): 10–13. h…
Transnational Documentaries
Essay| February 01 1997 Transnational Documentaries: A Manifesto John Hess, John Hess Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann John Hess is co-editor of Jump Cut. PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995). Both teach in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. E-mail: [email protected]; patty@ithaca…
Processing Trauma
Review| October 01 1998 Processing Trauma: The Media Art of Daniel Reeves Obsessive Becoming by Daniel Reeves Distributed by Video Data BankThe Hand That Holds Up All This Falling: The Works of Daniel Reeves, October 7- December 14, 1998, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College and author of Reel Families: A S…
Sphere of Action
Review| June 01 1999 Sphere of Action Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, by B. Ruby RichDurham: Duke University Press, 1998, 419 pp./$59.95 (hb), $18.95 (sb) Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies…
Cinéma amateur et démocratie
Zimmermann Patricia. Cinéma amateur et démocratie. In: Communications, 68, 1999. Le cinéma en amateur, sous la direction de Roger Odin. pp. 281-292
Holding on to the Real
For two decades, I have taught cinema studies in an undergraduate program in a school of communications dedicated primarily to teaching and film production. These two categories summon profound philosophical debates and quite aggravated and contentious practical tensions about the epistemologies, social and political contexts, and intellectual groundings of media arts education that inform what I see as the of our profession of critical media art…
Matrixes of War
Essay| February 01 2001 Matrixes of War Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2001) 28 (4): 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2001.2…
Erik Barnouw, 1908-2001
On July 19, Erik Barnouw died his home in Vermont, with his wife Betty at his side. Erik had an inoperable cancer and had been in hospice. Betty says he was ready for life's next adventure. He was 93. Erik was a legendary, foundational presence in the media arts field. He was the preeminent media historian of the twentieth century. His scores of books include The International Encyclopedia of Communication (1989), Conglomerates and the Media (199…
Blasting War
Essay| December 01 2002 Blasting War Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2002) 30 (3-4): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2002.30.3-4.4a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Patricia R. Zimmerma…
Beyond CNN
Review| October 01 2005 Beyond CNN Asian Media Information and Communications Conference, Beijing, China, July 18-21, 2005 Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Kim (1995), States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (forthcoming in 2006). Search for other works b…
Imbedded Public Histories
Essay| April 01 2006 Imbedded Public Histories Precious Places, by Scribe Video Center 174 minutes, English, 2005 Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History' of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie (forthco…
Just Say No
Essay| August 01 2006 Just Say No: Negativland’s No Business Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York She is author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie (forthcoming in 2007). She is also co-director of the Finger Lakes …
Reverse Engineering
Essay| August 01 2006 Reverse Engineering: Dismantling and Customizing for the New Global Media Ecology Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zjmmermakn is professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York, She is author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (1995) and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (2000) and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie (2006). She is also co…
Just Say No: Negativland's No Business
This essay reviews the new Negativland multimedia CD and DVD project No Business, examining how sonic landscapes are created out of plundering popular culture forms. No Business explores the contradictions between proprietary cultural forms and fair use practices, arguing for a notion of creative reappropriation for transformative use
Beyond Desktops
Book Review| November 01 2008 Beyond Desktops Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools Edited By Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, Ollie OviedoMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press236 pp./$75.00 (hb), $25.00 (sb) Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is professor of cinema, photography and media arts at Ithaca College. Her books include Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana 1995), States of Emerge…
Open Zones of Commonwealth
Research Article| November 01 2009 Open Zones of Commonwealth Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is a professor of cinema, photography, and media arts at Ithaca College; author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories; and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film F…
Cinema below the Border
Research Article| November 01 2009 Cinema below the Border Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia R. Zimmermann PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN is a professor of cinema, photography, and media arts at Ithaca College; author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film and States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; coeditor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories; and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Fest…
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