The project studies representations of families in Swedish private film collections from 1960-1985; a period when private film-making with 8 mm and Super8 reached a peak at the same time as the nuclear family was contested in the mass media. The project focuses on the contrast between the glorifying of the nuclear family in the private film collections and the problematizing attitude towards family that we find in Swedish film and television during the same period, arguing that it is possible to understand the private films as projects of re-nomisation, that is as attempts by the film-making families to protect themself against the demands of (post-)modern life. The aim is to prove the applicability of theories of re-nomisation on (a non-official phenomenon as) private film-making. The film collections are available at the Swedish Film Institute´s archive in Grängesberg, Sweden. About 20 collections/60 hours of film will be analysed and those who deposit the collections in the archive will be interviewed. This means that the selection of collections will be based on the agreements to be interviewed (in a minor project performed in the summer of 2009, 6 out of 7 private film-makers agreed to be interviewed). The results of the analyses of the collections and the interviewes will be compared to representations of family in film and television in order to throw light upon the atteptions of re-nomisation in the former. The project is an example of "New Film History".
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