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Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn´s Archives de la Planète
Paula Amad
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Description for Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn´s Archives de la Planète
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 408 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete (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 ... Read more
Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete (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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231135009
SKU
V9780231135009
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About Paula Amad
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.
Reviews for Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn´s Archives de la Planète
Counter-Archive is a groundbreaking, original and scholarly book, which is indispensable to a full understanding of the early and present history of the cinema and its relationship to the archive and the everyday.
Barbara Creed H-France an ambitious and compelling book which elegantly ties meticulous archival detail to astute theoretical challenges, and its conceptual hook may well inspire further ... Read more
Barbara Creed H-France an ambitious and compelling book which elegantly ties meticulous archival detail to astute theoretical challenges, and its conceptual hook may well inspire further ... Read more