Counter-archive : film, the everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete / Paula Amad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amad, Paula.

Series:

Film and culture.

Film & culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940.

Kahn, Albert.

Archives de la Planète.

Actualities (Motion pictures)--History and criticism.

Actualities (Motion pictures).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. Tracing the archive's key influences, such as the philosopher Henri Bergson, the geographer Jean Brunhes, and the biologist Jean Comandon, Paula Amad maps an alternative landscape of French cultural modernity in which vitalist philosophy cross-pollinated with early film theory, documentary film with the avant-garde, cinematic models of temporality with the early Annales school of history, and film's appropriation of the planet with human geography and colonial ideology. At the heart of the book is an insightful meditation upon the transformed concept of the archive in the age of cinema and an innovative argument about film's counter-archival challenge to history. The first comprehensive study of Kahn's films, Counter-Archive also offers a vital historical perspective on debates involving archives, media, and memory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. World Souvenir

2. "Keep your eyes open"

3. The Counter-Archive of Cinematic Memory

4. "No more written archives, only films"

5. The "anecdotal side of History"

6. Seeing "for the first time"

7. Illuminations from the Darkened "Sanctuary"

8. The Aerial View

Conclusion: Toute la Mémoire du monde

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613627957

9781280598128

1280598123

9780231509077

0231509073

OCLC:

826478977