How Film Histories Were Made Materials, Methods, Discourses

This book is specifically dedicated to film history's own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumpt...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Hagener, Malte (Editor), Zimmermann, Yvonne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press
Series:Film culture in transition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book is specifically dedicated to film history's own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions and hidden agendas that determine film historiography until today, also with the aim to act as a critical reflection on the potential future orientation of the field. The edited volume proposes a transnational, entangled and culturally diverse approach towards an archaeology of film history, while paying specific attention to persons, objects, infrastructures, regions, institutional fields and events hitherto overlooked. It explores past and ongoing processes of doing, undoing and redoing film history. Thereby, in a self-reflective gesture, it also draws attention to our own work as film historians.
Item Description:"Amsterdam University Press"
Physical Description:1 online resource (482 pages) illustrations.
ISBN:9048554578
9789048554577