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

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Amad, Paula,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Film and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 15 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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