ABSTRACT
This article offers an expanded definition of paracinema, concentrating on the labour of spectatorship performed by amateurs in the case of the home movie. In this expanded definition, paracinema offers a way of theorizing marginal cinemas’ engagement with social life through the active, engaged labour of their spectators. This labour responds to the modern separation and rationalization of work and leisure, and to the central role taken by ‘the movies’ in our articulation of modern life.
