How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2023

How Film Histories Were Made

Materials, Methods, Discourses

Edited by: Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann

In the series Film Culture in Transition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554577

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About this book

This book is specifically dedicated to film history’s own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions and hidden agendas that determine film historiography until today, also with the aim to act as a critical reflection on the potential future orientation of the field. The edited volume proposes a transnational, entangled and culturally diverse approach towards an archaeology of film history, while paying specific attention to persons, objects, infrastructures, regions, institutional fields and events hitherto overlooked. It explores past and ongoing processes of doing, undoing and redoing film history. Thereby, in a self-reflective gesture, it also draws attention to our own work as film historians.

Author / Editor information

Hagener Malte :

Malte Hagener is Professor of Media and Film Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. His publications include (with Thomas Elsaesser) Film Theory. An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge 2010, 2nd revised edition 2015). He is the co-editor of Handbuch Filmanalyse (Wiesbaden: Springer 2020; with Volker Pantenburg) and the editor of The Emergence of Film Culture. Knowledge Production, Institution Building and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945. London: Berghahn 2014.Zimmermann Yvonne :

Yvonne Zimmermann is Professor of Media Studies at Philipps-University Marburg. Recent books include the co-authored Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures>/cite> (AUP 2021) and the co-edited Films That Work Harder: The Global Circulations of Industrial Cinema (AUP 2023). She is the editor of a special issue on Asta Nielsen, the film star system and the introduction of the long feature film in Early Popular Visual Culture (2021).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction: Unpacking Film History’s Own Histories Towards an Archaeology of Film Historiography Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann Open Access Download PDF	13
I Models of Film Historiography: Philosophy and Time
1 The Aporias of Cinema History Thomas Elsaesser Open Access Download PDF	45
2 What Next? The Historical Time Theory of Film History Jane M. Gaines Open Access Download PDF	59
3 Relativist Perspectivism Caligari and the Crisis of Historicism Nicholas Baer Open Access Download PDF	85
4 The Discovery of Early Cinema The Moment of “Silence” Heide Schlüpmann Open Access Download PDF	119
II Film History in the Making: Processes and Agendas
5 Consistency, Explosion, and the Writing of Film History On Different Ways to Approach Film History at Different Times₁ Francesco Pitassio Open Access Download PDF	133
6 Defeats that Were Almost Victories Jay Leyda’s (Soviet) Archives Masha Salazkina Open Access Download PDF	163
7 A Film-maker’s Film Histories Adjacency Historiography and the Art of the Anthology Benoît Turquety Open Access Download PDF	189
8 Hans Richter and the “Struggle for the Film History” Yvonne Zimmermann Open Access Download PDF	209
III Revisiting Film History: Institutions, Knowledge, and Circulation
9 Historicizing the Gulf Moving Image Archives Firat Oruc Open Access Download PDF	235
10 British Cultural Studies, Film History, and Forgotten Horizons of Cultural Analysis Charles R. Acland Open Access Download PDF	263
11 The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism Notes on the Postcolonial Documentary Film from India Arvind Rajagopal Open Access Download PDF	283
12 What Was a Film Society? Towards a New Archaeology of Screen Communities Michael Cowan Open Access Download PDF	315
IV Rewriting Film History with Images: Audiovisual Forms of Historiography
13 A Televisual Cinematheque Film Histories on West German Television Volker Pantenburg Open Access Download PDF	347
14 The History of Film on Film Some Thoughts on Reflexive Documentaries Eleftheria Thanouli Open Access Download PDF	371
15 Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age From Found Footage Cinema to Online Videographic Criticism Chiara Grizzaffi Open Access Download PDF	389
V Into the Digital: New Approaches and Revisions
16 Future Pasts within the Dynamics of the Digital Present Digitized Films and the Clusters of Media Historiographic Experience Franziska Heller Open Access Download PDF	417
17 Tipping the Scales of Film History A Note on Scalability and Film Historiography Alexandra Schneider and Vinzenz Hediger Open Access Download PDF	445
18 Representing the Unknown A Critical Approach to Digital Data Visualizations in the Context of Feminist Film Historiography Sarah-Mai Dang Open Access Download PDF	467
Select Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	495
Index Open Access Download PDF	519

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 530
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 24
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Film History; Media Archaeology; Historiography

eBook

Published: November 27, 2023
ISBN: 9789048554577