Counter-Archive : : Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète / / Paula Amad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Amad, Paula,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 15 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. World Souvenir --; 2. "Keep your eyes open" --; 3. The Counter-Archive of Cinematic 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: Toute la Mémoire du monde --; Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231509077; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/amad13500
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paula Amad.

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.