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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Elsaesser, Thomas,
• MitwirkendeR: Elsaesser, Thomas,; Hagener, Malte,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Année de publication: 2016
• Langue: English
• Collection: Film Culture in Transition ; 50
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (414 p.) :; 30 halftones

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, while also examining the presence of moving images in museum and art spaces as a challenge for art history. The study is the fruit of twenty years of research and writing at the interface of film history, media theory, and media archaeology by one of the acknowledged pioneers of new film history and media archaeology. It joins the efforts of other media scholars to locate cinema's historical emergence and subsequent transformations within the broader field of media change and interaction as we experience them today.

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