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How Film Histories Were Made

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List of Illustrations (9) | Introduction: Unpacking Film History’s Own Histories: Towards an Archaeology of Film Historiography - Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann (13) 1. The Aporias of Cinema History - Thomas Elsaesser (47) | 2. What Next? The Historical Time Theory of Film History - Jane M. Gaines (59) | 3. Relativist Perspectivism: Caligari and the Crisis of Historicism - Nicholas Baer (85) | 4. The Discovery of Early Cinema: The Moment of “Silence” - Heide Schlüpmann (119) 5. Consistency, Explosion, and the Writing of Film History: On Different Ways to Approach Film History at Different Times - Francesco Pitassio (135) | 6. Defeats that Were Almost Victories: Jay Leyda’s (Soviet) Archives - Masha Salazkina (163) | 7. A Film-maker’s Film Histories: Adjacency Historiography and the Art of the Anthology - Benoît Turquety (189) | 8. Hans Richter and the “Struggle for the Film History” - Yvonne Zimmermann (209) 9. Historicizing the Gulf Moving Image Archives - Firat Oruc (237) | 10. British Cultural Studies, Film History, and Forgotten Horizons of Cultural Analysis - Charles R. Acland (263) | 11. The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism: Notes on the Postcolonial Documentary Film from India - Arvind Rajagopal (283) | 12. What Was a Film Society? Towards a New Archaeology of Screen Communities - Michael Cowan (315) 13. A Televisual Cinematheque: Film Histories on West German Television - Volker Pantenburg (349) | 14. The History of Film on Film: Some Thoughts on Reflexive Documentaries - Eleftheria Thanouli (371) | 15. Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age: From Found Footage Cinema to Online Videographic Criticism - Chiara Grizzaffi (389) 16. Future Pasts within the Dynamics of the Digital Present: Digitized Films and the Clusters of Media Historiographic Experience - Franziska Heller (419) | 17. Tipping the Scales of Film History: A Note on Scalability and Film Historiography - Alexandra Schneider and Vinzenz Hediger (445) | 18. Representing the Unknown: A Critical Approach to Digital Data Visualizations in the Context of Feminist Film Historiography - Sarah-Mai Dang (467) Select Bibliography (495) | Index (519)

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791.43 Mal h

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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2024

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xii, 532 hlm. : 23 x 15 cm

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English

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978-90-4855-457-7

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791.43

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Film criticism
Motion pictures--Historiography
Motion pictures--History--Methodology

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