Russell Archiveology

Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7200-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: A Camera Obscura Book

Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images—by filmmakers provides ways to imagine the past and the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russell, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1
1. Introduction to Archiveology 11
2. Walter Benjamin and the Language of the Moving Image Archive 35
3. The Cityscape in Pieces 55
4. Collecting Images 97
5. Phantasmagoria and Critical Cinephilia 141
6. Awakening from the Gendered Archive 184
Epilogue 218
Notes 225
Selected Filmography 245
Bibliography 247
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Russell is Professor of Cinema at Concordia University and the author of The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity and Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video, both also published by Duke University Press, as well as Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited.