03705nam 22006495 450 991045859550332120210106235256.01-280-59812-397866136279570-231-50907-310.7312/amad13500(CKB)2560000000051117(EBL)895100(OCoLC)826478977(DE-B1597)458596(OCoLC)1013953668(OCoLC)979628499(DE-B1597)9780231509077(MiAaPQ)EBC895100(EXLCZ)99256000000005111720190708d2010 fg engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCounter-Archive Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète /Paula AmadNew York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2010]©20101 online resource (429 p.)Film and Culture SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13501-7 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 -- IndexTucked 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.Film and Culture SeriesActualities (Motion pictures) - History and criticismActualities (Motion pictures) -- History and criticismArchives de la PlaneteArchives de la PlanèteKahn, AlbertKahn, Albert, 1860-1940Electronic books.Actualities (Motion pictures) - History and criticism.Actualities (Motion pictures) -- History and criticism.Archives de la Planete.Archives de la Planète.Kahn, Albert.Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940.791.43/3Amad Paula, 1050040DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910458595503321Counter-Archive2479509UNINA