General Information

Author/Creator

Amad, Paula.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.

Physical Description

xiii, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

Film and culture.

Subjects

Subject

Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940.

Archives de la Planète.

Actualities (Motion pictures) > History and criticism.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Paula Amad.

Series

Film & culture series

Content

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.

ISBN

9780231135009

0231135009

9780231135016

0231135017

9780231509077

0231509073

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	791.43/3 AMA		Reference	-

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