Amad Counter-Archive

Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-50907-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Amad, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. World Souvenir: "Mr. K" and the Archives de la Planète
2. "Keep your eyes open": From Pre-documentary to Documentary Film in the Kahn Archive
3. The Counter-Archive of Cinematic Memory: Bergsonism, la durée, and the Everyday
4. "No more written archives, only films": Early Discourses and Practices of the Film Archive
5. The "anecdotal side of history": Temporality, Film, and Annales Historiography
6. Seeing "for the first time": The Rediscovery of the Everyday in Early French Film Theory
7. Illuminations from the Darkened "Sanctuary": Reception of the Kahn Films
8. The Aerial View: Human Geography, Cosmopolitanism, and Colonialism
Conclusion: Toute la Mémoire du monde: The Counter-Archive Beyond Kahn
Appendix: Photographers and Cameramen of the Archives de la Planète
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paula Amad is an Australian-born Lebanese academic and Associate Professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Iowa. She has taught at universities in Australia, France, and the United States and is the recipient of a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship.