Archiveology : Walter Benjamin and archival film practices / Catherine Russell.

Main entry:

Russell, Catherine, 1959- author.

Title & Author:

Archiveology : Walter Benjamin and archival film practices / Catherine Russell.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
©2018

Description:

x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

A camera obscura book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to archiveology -- Walter Benjamin and the language of the moving image archive -- The cityscape in pieces -- Collecting images -- Phantasmagoria and critical cinephilia -- Awakening from the gendered archive.

Summary:

The author uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology - the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers - provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, the author examines a range of films alongside Benjamin's conceptions of memory, document, excavation, and historiography. She shows how city films such as Nicole Védrès "Paris 1900" (1947) and Thom Andersen's "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003) reconstruct notions of urban life and uses Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (2010) to draw parallels between critical cinephilia and Benjamin's theory of the phantasmagoria. The author also discusses practices of collecting in archiveological film and rereads films by Joseph Cornell and Rania Stephan to explore an archival practice that dislocates and relocates the female image in film. In so doing, she not only shows how Benjamin's work is as relevant to film theory as ever; she shows how archiveology can awaken artists and audiences to critical forms of history and memory.

ISBN:

9780822370451 (hardcover alkaline paper)
082237045X (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780822370574 (paperback alkaline paper)
0822370573 (paperback alkaline paper)

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
Bibel Philemonbrief
Film archives.
Archives.
Motion picture film.
Archives cinématographiques.
Films (Pellicules cinématographiques)
Libraries and Museums.
Filmarchiv

Added entries:

Camera obscura book (Duke University Press)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300709
Call No.: BIB 246928
Status: Available

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