There was a very interesting made-for-TV movie a couple of years ago (I think it was 1991) called EXTREME CLOSE-UP. It was directed by Peter Horton (Gary of thirtysomething), starred Blair Brown (of Molly Dodd fame). The plot was built around an adolescent boy who was an amateur videographer, whose home videos captured his mother's descent into mental illness and suicide. From what I remember reading at the time, Horton had the young actor shoot the extensive video footage himself, rather than have a professional cinematographer do it. I think DRUGSTORE COWBOY had significant video/home movie-type footage. Of course, Michelle Citron's feminist experimental piece DAUGHTER RITE is structured around home movies. The Summer/Fall 1986 issue of JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO, edited by Patricia Zimmerman, is devoted to amateur filmmaking and its intersection with other types of cinema, so many of the papers have relevance to the use of amateur codes of representation in mainstream cinema and TV. Good luck, Pam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pam Wilson | Internet: [log in to unmask] Dept. of Communication Arts | Bitnet: PSWILSON@wiscmacc University of Wisconsin, Madison | Phone: (608) 256-1824 -------------------------------------------------------------------------