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Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. Tracing the archive's key influences, such as the philosopher Henri Bergson, the geographer Jean Brunhes, and the biologist Jean Comandon, Paula Amad maps an alternative landscape of French cultural modernity in which vitalist philosophy cross-pollinated with early film theory, documentary film with the avant-garde, cinematic models of temporality with the early Annales school of history, and film's appropriation of the planet with human geography and colonial ideology. At the heart of the book is an insightful meditation upon the transformed concept of the archive in the age of cinema and an innovative argument about film's counter-archival challenge to history. The first comprehensive study of Kahn's films, Counter-Archive also offers a vital historical perspective on debates involving archives, media, and memory.
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- CoverÂ
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- ContentsÂ
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: World Souvenir: âMr. Kâ and the Archives de la Planète
- 2: âKeep your eyes openâ: From Pre-documentary to Documentary Film in the Kahn Archives
- 3: The Counter-Archive of Cinematic Memory: Bergsonism, la durĂŠe, and the Everyday
- 4: âNo more written archives, only filmsâ: Early Discourses and Practices of the Film Archive
- 5: The âanecdotal side of Historyâ: Temporality, Film, and Annales Historiography
- 6: Seeing âfor the first timeâ: The Rediscovery of the Everyday in Early French Film Theory
- 7: Illuminations from the Darkened âSanctuaryâ: Reception of the Kahn Films
- 8: The Aerial View: Human Geography, Cosmopolitanism, and Colonialism
- Conclusion: Toute la MĂŠmoire du monde: Counter-archival Tendencies Beyond Kahn
- Appendix: Photographers and Cameramen of the Archives de la Planète
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List