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Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète

Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paula AmadSeries:Film and CultureAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-09-23Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231135016ISBN-10:231135017UPC:9780231135016Book Category:Performing Arts, History, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Film, Europe, TechniquesBook Topic:History & Criticism, France, Cinematography & VideographySize:9.18 x 6.22 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SCSPNGNBFR
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231135016ISBN-10:231135017UPC:9780231135016Book Category:Performing Arts, History, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Film, Europe, TechniquesBook Topic:History & Criticism, France, Cinematography & VideographySize:9.18 x 6.22 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SCSPNGNBFR
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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