Exposing the Film Apparatus

Exposing the Film Apparatus
Author: Giovanna Fossati
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Cinematography
ISBN: 9789462983168

Contributors with a wide range of expertise in the film and media world consider the practical and theoretical challenges posed by changing formats and technologies.

The Films of Bill Morrison

The Films of Bill Morrison
Author: Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048529093

Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and his 2002 film Decasia was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career. It gathers specialists throughout film studies to explore Morrison's "aesthetics of the archive"-his creative play with archival footage and his focus on the materiality of the medium of film.

Ex-Cinema

Ex-Cinema
Author: Akira Lippit
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520953916

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-"—meaning from, outside, and no longer—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.

Film Phenomenology and Adaptation

Film Phenomenology and Adaptation
Author: David E. Richard
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9048543053

Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. Across its chapters, this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies, examining how vision, hearing, touch, and the structures of the embodied imagination and memory thicken and make tangible an adaptation's source. In doing so, this book not only conceives adaptation as an intertextual layering of source material and adaptation, but also an intersubjective and textural experience that includes the materiality of the body.

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology
Author: Andreas Fickers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2022-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110799774

This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use into account in the writing of the histories of media and technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.

The Greatest Films Never Seen

The Greatest Films Never Seen
Author: Claudy Op den Kamp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789048531042

Orphan works, or artworks for which no copyright holder is traceable, pose a growing problem for museums, archives, and other heritage institutions. As they come under more and more pressure to digitize and share their archives, they are often hampered by the uncertain rights status of items in their collections. The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen uses the prism of copyright to reconsider human agency and the politics of the archive, and asks what the practical implications are for educational institutions, the creative industries, and the general public. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema

Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema
Author: Tom Gunning
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Color cinematography
ISBN: 9789089646576

Presents and discusses a treasure trove of early color film images from the archives of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, bringing to life their rich hues and forgotten splendor.

Film museum practice and film historiography

Film museum practice and film historiography
Author: Bregt Lameris
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-07-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048526744

This book is an elaborate study of the interrelationships between film historical discourse and archival practices, such as the collecting, restoration and exhibition of films. It delineates how film historiographical discourses always leave traces in the film archive, and vice versa. The book investigates and analyzes the history of three important collections from the archive of EYE Film Museum: the Uitkijk-collection, the Desmet-collection, and Dutch silent films. The histories of these collections have different connections to film historiography, and as such allow us to investigate these interrelationships from various perspectives. It shows how archival films and collections always carry the historical traces of selection policies, restoration philosophies, and exhibition strategies. As such the book aims to demonstrate how film archives cannot be innocent or neutral sources of film history. In addition, it shows that current EYE Film Museum activities semi-automatically refer to this history of which the archive carries the material traces.