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Author Amad, Paula.

Title Counter-archive : film, the everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Plan{garve}ete / Paula Amad
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 408 pages) : illustrations
Series Film & culture series
Film and culture.
Contents ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. WORLD SOUVENIR; 2. "KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN"; 3. THE COUNTER-ARCHIVE OFCINEMATIC 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; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; FILM & CULTURE
Summary From 1908 to 1931, French banker Albert Kahn financed a monumental multimedia archive intended to record the ""surface of the globe as inhabited and developed by Man."" Stored in a world-themed garden on the outskirts of Paris, the Archives de la Planète contained 4,000 stereoscopic plates, 72,000 autochromes, and 183,000 meters of film, composing one of the twentieth century's most impressive attempts to preserve a memory of the world through media. Moving beyond a traditional focus on fiction films screened for theatrical release, this book introduces new perspectives on motion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940.
SUBJECT Kahn, Albert, 1860-1940 fast
Kahn, Albert -- Sammlung -- Film. idsbb
Subject Archives de la Planète.
SUBJECT Archives de la Planète fast
Albert Kahn musée et jardins gnd
Subject Actualities (Motion pictures) -- History and criticism
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Film
Filmarchiv -- Frankreich.
Filmtheorie -- Frankreich -- Geschichte 1900-1945.
Filmarkiv -- Frankrike.
Dokumentärfilm -- Frankrike.
Arkiv.
Frankreich
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231509077
0231509073