1st Edition
Film History as Media Archaeology Tracking Digital Cinema
By Thomas Elsaesser
Copyright 2016
410 Pages
by
Routledge
410 Pages
by
Routledge
410 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinema's current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers, while also examining the presence of moving images in the museum and art spaces as a challenge for art history.... Read more
General Introduction. Media Archaeology - Foucault's Legacy I. Early Cinema 1. Film History as Media Archaeology 2. Is Nothing New: Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History 3. An Invention without a Future, After the Future: Louis Lumiere and Thomas A Edison - Double Paternity or Alternative Paradigms 4. The Cinematic Dispositi between Apparatus Theory and Artists Cinema II. The Challenge of Sound 5. Sounds Beguiling: Franz Hofer's Christmas Bells 6. Going 'Live': Body and Voice in Some Early German Sound Films 7. The Optical Wave: Walter Ruttmann in 1929 III. Archaeologies of Interactivity 8. The Cinema's Turn to Narrative: The Art of Managing Attention 9. Archaeologies of Interactivity: The 'Rube' as Symptom of Media Change 10. Tales of Epiphany and Entropy: Around the World in Eighty Clicks IV. Digital Cinema 11. Digital Cinema: Delivery Event Time 12. Digital Cinema: Convergence or Contradiction 13. Digital Cinema and the Apparatus: Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies V. New Logics of the Image 14. Stop/Motion 15. The 'Return' of 3-D: On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century 16. Cinema Energy Entropy 17. Simulation and the Labour of Invisibility: Harun Farocki's Life Manuals VI. Media Archaeology as Symptom 18. Media Archaeology and the Poetics of Obsolescence 19. Media Archaeology as Symptom 20. Selected Bibliography.
Biography
Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019) was Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
