With the success of Martin Scorseses Hugo (2011) and Michel HazanaviciussThe Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that wind their way through 20th and 21st century visual cultures. Contributors bring together several fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental and new media, historiography and archive theory, and studies of media ontology and epistemology. Chapters link the methods, concerns, and concepts of early and silent film studies as they have flourished over the last quarter century to the most recent developments in digital culturefrom YouTube to 3Drecasting this contemporary phenomenon in popular culture and new media against key debates and concepts in silent film scholarship. An interview with acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin closes out the collection.
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2017 SCMS Award Winner, Best Essay in an Edited Collection: "A YouTube Bestiary: Twenty-Six Theses on a Post-Cinema of Animal Attractions" by James Leo Cahill.
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| Introduction: celluloid specters, digital anachronisms |
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3 "Historicity begins with decay and ends with the pretense of immortality" |
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4 Paris 1900: archiveology and the compilation film |
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5 After life, early cinema: remaking the past with hirokazu kore-eda |
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6 Playback, play-forward: anna may wong in double exposure |
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7 The living nickelodeon and silent film sound today |
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8 Intertext as archive: melies, hugo, and new silent cinema |
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9 Cross-medial afterlives: the film archive in contemporary fiction |
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10 Supposing that the archive is a woman |
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11 The life cycle of an analog medium: tacita dean's film |
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12 From silence to babel: farocki's image infoscape |
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13 Found memories of film history: industry in a post-industrial world, cinema in a post-filmic age |
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14 A youtube bestiary: twenty-six theses on a post-cinema of animal attractions |
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15 Laughter in an ungoverned sphere: actuality humor in early cinema and web 2.0 |
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16 "The biggest kuleshov experiment ever" |
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| Contributors |
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| About The American Film Institute |
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Paul Flaig is Lecturer of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. His articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Screen, a: the journal of culture and the unconscious, The Brecht Year Book as well as several edited collections.
Katherine Groo is Lecturer of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen and Co-Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture. Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Framework, and Frames.
