03672nam 22005415 450 99651777140331620230623182031.090-485-5572-810.1515/9789048555727(CKB)26154152400041(DE-B1597)638118(DE-B1597)9789048555727(MiAaPQ)EBC30406518(Au-PeEL)EBL30406518(OCoLC)1370993568(EXLCZ)992615415240004120230328h20232023 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFilm Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933 Tracing the Social Life of Cinema /Michael Cowan1st ed.Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2023]©20231 online resource (274 p.)Film Culture in TransitionFrontmatter --Table of Contents --List of Illustrations --Introduction : What Was a Film Society? Towards a New Archaeology of Screen Communities --1. The Knowledge Community : The Birth of the Film Society from the Spirit of Amateur Science --2. The Professional Community : Conceptualizing the Film Industry in the Deutsche Kinotechnische Gesellschaft --3. Communities of Love : Cinephilic Film Clubs, Movie Magazines and the Viennese Kinogemeinde --4. The Skeptical Community : Left-Wing Film Societies and the Making of the Suspicious Spectator --Afterword: What’s in an ‘Idea’? --Bibliography --IndexThis study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a diverse array of groups, it approaches film societies as formations designed to assimilate and influence a new medium: a project emerging from the world of amateur science before taking new directions into industry, art and politics. Through an interdisciplinary approach—in dialogue with social history, print history and media archaeology—it also transforms our theoretical understanding of what a film society was and how it operated. Far from representing a mere collection of pre-formed cinephiles, film societies were, according to the book’s central argument, productive social formations, which taught people how to nurture their passion for the movies, how to engage with cinema, and how to interact with each other. Ultimately, the study argues that examining film societies can help to reveal the diffuse agency by which generative ideas of cinema take shape.Film culture in transitionMotion picturesSocial aspectsAustriaHistory20th centuryMotion picturesSocial aspectsGermanyHistory20th centuryMotion picturesSocieties, etcHistoryHISTORY / Europe / GermanybisacshFilm societies, German cinema, Austrian cinema, film culture, film journals, media archaeology, scientific film, film industries, cinephilia, film activism.Motion picturesSocial aspectsHistoryMotion picturesSocial aspectsHistoryMotion picturesSocieties, etc.History.HISTORY / Europe / Germany.791.4306043Cowan Michaelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1277878DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996517771403316Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-19333358856UNISA