Exposing the Film Apparatus

The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
0. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-94-6298-316-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1008 g

Reihe: Framing Film

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fossati, Giovanna

van den Oever, Annie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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 and Co. Consumers Guide's Department of Special Public Entertainment Outfits and Supplies - William Uricchio

Widescreen Anamorphic Lens - Steven Willemsen

The Introduction of Ciné-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 - Benoît 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 CINÉMA as a Laboratory for an Art of Archives - Céline 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 - Miklós 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

Über Autor(innen)

van den Oever, Annie
Annie van den Oever is Distinguished Visiting Professor (University of Johannesburg) and, until recently, Professor of Film (University Groningen) and Extraordinary Professor of Film and Visual Media (University of the Free State). She published Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory in 2022, with Andreas Fickers, and Technics in 2024, with Nicholas Baer.

Fossati, Giovanna
Giovanna Fossati is Professor of Media Heritage, Technology, and Culture at Utrecht University. Formerly Chief Curator of Eye Filmmuseum and Professor of Film Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, her research focuses on audiovisual archiving with a global and sustainable approach.

"http://www.uva.nl/en/contact/staff/item/g.fossati.html?f=fossati" target="_blank">Giovanna Fossati is the chief curator of Eye Filmmuseum and professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam. "https://www.rug.nl/staff/a.m.a.van.den.oever/">Annie van den Oever, Extraordinary Professor for Film and Visual Media, University of the Free State; University of Groningen. Series editor of The Key Debates.