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Counter-archive : film, the everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
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- Creator
- Paula Amad
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
- ©2010
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- xiii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780231135009, 0231509073, 0231135009, 1280598123, 9786613627957, 9780231135016, 0231135017, 9780231509077
- OCLC
- ocn500818221, ocn966263783, ocn680622078, ocn979628499, on1013953668, ocn826478977
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- World souvenir: "Mr. K" and the Archives de la Planète -- "Keep your eyes open" : from pre-documentary to documentary film in the Kahn archives -- The counter-archive of cinematic memory : Bergsonism, la durée, and the everyday -- "No more written archives, only films" : early discourses and practices of the film archive -- The "anecdotal side of history" : temporality, film, and annales historiography -- Seeing "for the first time" : the rediscovery of the everyday in early French film theory -- Illuminations from the darkened "sanctuary" : reception of the Kahn films -- The aerial view : human geography, cosmopolitanism, and colonialism -- Conclusion : toute la mémoire du monde : counter-archival tendencies beyond Kahn