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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction. Media Archaeology: Foucault’s Legacy
- I. Early Cinema
- 1. Film History as Media Archaeology
- 2. The Cinematic Dispositif (Between Apparatus Theory and Artists’ Cinema)
- II. The Challenge of Sound
- 3. Going ‘Live’. Body and Voice in Some Early German Sound Films
- 4. The Optical Wave. Walter Ruttmann in 1929
- III. Archaeologies of Interactivity
- 5. Archaeologies of Interactivity. The “Rube” as Symptom of Media Change
- 6. Constructive Instability. or: The Life of Things as Cinema’s Afterlife?
- IV. Digital Cinema
- 7. Digital Cinema. Delivery, Event, Time
- 8. Digital Cinema and the Apparatus. Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies
- V. New Genealogies of Cinema
- 9. The “Return” of 3D. On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century
- 10. Cinema, Motion, Energy, and Entropy
- VI. Media Archaeology as Symptom
- 11. Media Archaeology as the Poetics of Obsolescence
- 12. Media Archaeology as Symptom
- Media Archaeology – Selected Bibliography
- Index of Film Titles
- Index of Key Words
- Index of Names
- Film Culture in Transition