Exposing the Film Apparatus
The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
Published on 1. October 2025
478 pages
978-1-040-77604-9 (ISBN)
Description
Film archives have long been dedicated to preserving movies, and they've been nimble in recent years in adapting to the changing formats and technologies through which cinema is now created and presented. This collection makes the case for a further step: the need to see media technologies themselves as objects of conservation, restoration, presentation, and research, in both film archives and film studies. Contributors with a wide range of expertise in the film and media world consider the practical and theoretical challenges posed by such conservation efforts and consider their potential to generate productive new possibilities in research and education in the field.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
9,41 MB
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978-1-040-77604-9 (9781040776049)
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Exposing the Film Apparatus
The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
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03/2016
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The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
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Amsterdam University Press
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Persons
Giovanna Fossati is the chief curator of Eye Filmmuseum and professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Annie van den Oever is a Professor of Film at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (since March 2024). Recent books: >Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Theory>(De Gruyter, 2022, with Andreas Fickers); and >Visual Media, Distortions, and the Grotesque as a Dominant Format Today>, forthcoming.
Annie van den Oever is a Professor of Film at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (since March 2024). Recent books: >Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Theory>(De Gruyter, 2022, with Andreas Fickers); and >Visual Media, Distortions, and the Grotesque as a Dominant Format Today>, forthcoming.
Content
Introduction: Exposing the Film Apparatus Giovanna Fossati and Annie van den Oever, Small and Portable Cinema in My Pocket Roger Odin Uncanny Encounter: The iPhone and the Debrie Camera Martine Beugnet ,The Erasure of Analog Film Projection Leenke Ripmeester, Ghosts of the Past: Frame Rates, Cranking and Access to Early Cinema Marek Jancovic, Vitascope Movie-Maker: A Ludic Historiography Guy Edmonds, Contextualizing the Apparatus: Film in the Turn-of-the-Century Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumers Guide's Department of Special Public Entertainment Outfits and Supplies William Uricchio, Widescreen Anamorphic Lens Steven Willemsen, The Introduction of Cine-Kodak: The Long-Awaited Answer Susan Aasman, The Orbit and Single Shot Cinema Annelies van Noortwijk, The Video Compact Disc and the Digital Preservation of Indonesian National Cinema History Ari Purnama, Bolex Artists: Bolex Cameras, Amateurism, and the New York Film Avant-Garde Barbara Turquier The Tripod or When Professionals Turn Amateur: A Plea for an Amateur Film Archaeology, Alexandra Schneider Imagining the User of Portapak: Countercultural Agency for Everyone! Tom Slootweg, Edison's Ideal and the Visual Technics of the Sublime Gert Jan Harkema and Amanda du Preez Medium and Not Easily Portable A Legal Alien: The 16mm Projector in the Classroom, Eef Masson, The Analog Film Projector in Marijke van Warmerdam's Digitized Film Installations, Julia Noordegraaf, The Illusion of Movement, the Illusion of Color: The Kinemacolor Projector, Archaeology, and Epistemology Benoit Turquety Stenciling Technologies and the Hybridized Image in Early Cinema Joshua Yumibe Understanding Early Film Sound: The Biophon Sound-on-Disc System Sonia Campanini Digital Frontiers: 2k to 4k and Beyond Ian Christie Large and Not Portable Geyer Rekord Continuous Contact Printer (c. 1935) Martin Koerber Jean-Luc Godard, the Video Editing Table and HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA as a Laboratory for an Art of Archives Celine Scemama Famous Facials: How We Got Ready for the Close-Up Jan Holmberg Digital Cinema, or: What Happens to the Dispositif? Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk, 3D Imaging Technology's Narrative Appropriation in Cinema Miklos Kiss, Extending the Archival Life of Film: Presenting Film History with EYE Film Institute Netherlands' Panorama Caylin Smith The Database of Technical Devices: Describing, Cataloging, and Using Technical Devices in the Museum's Collections Rommy Albers and Soeluh van den Berg, The Invisible Cinema Julian Hanich A Tale of Two Times: Augmented Reality as Archival Laboratory Nanna Verhoeff, Notes, General Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, Index of Names, Index of Films.
