Film History as Media Archaeology : : Tracking Digital Cinema / / Thomas Elsaesser.

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 cinema's current status as a new epistemological object of interest to philosophers, wh...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
VerfasserIn:
MitwirkendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Film Culture in Transition ; 50
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (414 p.) :; 30 halftones
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • General Introduction. Media Archaeology: Foucault's Legacy
  • I. Early Cinema
  • 1. Film History as Media Archaeology
  • 2. The Cinematic Dispositif (Between Apparatus Theory and Artists' Cinema)
  • II. The Challenge of Sound
  • 3. Going 'Live'. Body and Voice in Some Early German Sound Films
  • 4. The Optical Wave. Walter Ruttmann in 1929
  • III. Archaeologies of Interactivity
  • 5. Archaeologies of Interactivity. The "Rube" as Symptom of Media Change
  • 6. Constructive Instability. or: The Life of Things as Cinema's Afterlife?
  • IV. Digital Cinema
  • 7. Digital Cinema. Delivery, Event, Time
  • 8. Digital Cinema and the Apparatus. Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies
  • V. New Genealogies of Cinema
  • 9. The "Return" of 3D. On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century
  • 10. Cinema, Motion, Energy, and Entropy
  • VI. Media Archaeology as Symptom
  • 11. Media Archaeology as the Poetics of Obsolescence
  • 12. Media Archaeology as Symptom
  • Media Archaeology - Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Film Titles
  • Index of Key Words
  • Index of Names
  • Film Culture in Transition