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UNINA9910791415503321 |
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Amad Paula |
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Counter-Archive : Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète / / Paula Amad |
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New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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1-280-59812-3 |
9786613627957 |
0-231-50907-3 |
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1 online resource (429 p.) |
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Actualities (Motion pictures) - History and criticism |
Actualities (Motion pictures) -- History and criticism |
Archives de la Planete |
Archives de la Planète |
Kahn, Albert |
Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940 |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910967784003321 |
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Autore |
Lukacs John <1924-> |
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The duel : the eighty-day struggle between Churchill and Hitler / / John Lukacs |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2001, c1990 |
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9781283950176 |
1283950170 |
9780300180978 |
0300180977 |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front |
World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain |
World War, 1939-1945 - Germany |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index. |
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This day-by-day account of the maneuvering between Britain and Germany in 1940 is "a wonderful story wonderfully told" (George F. Will, New York Times -bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner). During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the |
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edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe-and Britain was threatened by imminent invasion and defeat. From the acclaimed author of Five Days in London, May 1940, this book tells the story of two leaders facing off against each other, and the decisions they made that shaped the eventual outcome of the Second World War. "Powerful...An impressive study [written] with elegance and panache."- The New York Times "A master of narrative history on a par with Barbara Tuchman and Garrett Mattingly."- Kirkus Reviews "An often witty and always fascinating-even entertaining-writer."- The WashingtonPost |
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