Film, the everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
By: Paula Amad
Series: Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231135009; 9780231135016; 9780231509077
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: World souvenir: "Mr. K" and the Archives de la Planète; title: "Keep your eyes open" : from pre-documentary to documentary film in the Kahn archive; title: The counter-archive of cinematic memory : Bergsonism, la durée, and the everyday; title: "No more written archives, only films" : early discourses and practices of the film archive; title: The "anecdotal side of history" : temporality, film, and annales historiography; title: Seeing "for the first time" : the rediscovery of the everyday in early French film theory; title: Illuminations from the darkened "sanctuary" : reception of the Kahn films; title: The aerial view : human geography, cosmopolitanism, and colonialism; title: Conclusion : toute la mémoire du monde: the counter-archive beyond Kahn.