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Format: 1 online resource : , 15 illus.

ISBN: 9780231509077

Series Statement: Film and Culture Series

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction -- , 1. World Souvenir: “Mr. K” and the Archives de la Planète -- , 2. “Keep your eyes open”: From Pre-documentary to Documentary Film in the Kahn Archives -- , 3. The Counter-Archive of Cinematic Memory: Bergsonism, la durée, and the Everyday -- , 4. “No more written archives, only films”: Early Discourses and Practices of the Film Archive -- , 5. The “anecdotal side of History”: Temporality, Film, and Annales Historiography -- , 6. Seeing “for the first time”: The Rediscovery of the Everyday in Early French Film Theory -- , 7. Illuminations from the Darkened “Sanctuary”: Reception of the Kahn Films -- , 8. The Aerial View: Human Geography, Cosmopolitanism, and Colonialism -- , Conclusion: Toute la Mémoire du monde: Counter-archival Tendencies Beyond Kahn -- , Appendix: Photographers and Cameramen of the Archives de la Planète -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/amad13500

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/amad13500

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/amad13500

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 408 pages) , illustrations

Edition: Online-Ausg.

ISBN: 0231509073 , 9780231135016 , 9780231135009 , 9780231509077

Series Statement: Film & culture series

Content: From 1908 to 1931, French banker Albert Kahn financed a monumental multimedia archive intended to record the ""surface of the globe as inhabited and developed by Man."" Stored in a world-themed garden on the outskirts of Paris, the Archives de la Planète contained 4,000 stereoscopic plates, 72,000 autochromes, and 183,000 meters of film, composing one of the twentieth century's most impressive attempts to preserve a memory of the world through media. Moving beyond a traditional focus on fiction films screened for theatrical release, this book introduces new perspectives on motion

Content: ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. WORLD SOUVENIR; 2. "KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN"; 3. THE COUNTER-ARCHIVE OFCINEMATIC 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; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; FILM & CULTURE

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Amad, Paula Counter-archive New York : Columbia University Press, 2010

Language: English

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Format: XIII, 408 S. : , Ill. ; , 24 cm.

Series Statement: Film & culture series

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction -- World souvenir: "Mr. K" and the Archives de la Planète -- "Keep your eyes open" : from pre-documentary to documentary film in the Kahn archives -- The counter-archive of cinematic memory : Bergsonism, la durée, and the everyday -- "No more written archives, only films" : early discourses and practices of the film archive -- The "anecdotal side of history" : temporality, film, and annales historiography -- Seeing "for the first time" : the rediscovery of the everyday in early French film theory -- Illuminations from the darkened "sanctuary" : reception of the Kahn films -- The aerial view : human geography, cosmopolitanism, and colonialism -- Conclusion : toute la mémoire du monde : counter-archival tendencies beyond Kahn

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Ethnologie ; Fotoarchiv ; Filmarchiv ; Film ; Filmarchiv ; 1860-1940 Kahn, Albert

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Format: xiii, 408 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Film & culture series

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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