Minette Hillyer, a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Film Studies in the Department of Rhetoric, is writing a dissertation on The Myth of Home: Ethnography, Home Movies, and Images of the Everyday in American Popular Culture. This study looks at representations of the home in the popular visual culture of 1950s America, following a path from scientific treatments of home in ethnographic and sociological studies, through commercial and educational films, and ending with home movies. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hillyer’s work describes home movies as a vernacular language for talking about the home. By placing them in the context of other representations of the home, she theorizes a mode of “homely” spectatorship found across genres and cultural objects and therefore, she argues, transmissible across time.