How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Unpacking Film History’s Own Histories
I Models of Film Historiography: Philosophy and Time
1 The Aporias of Cinema History
2 What Next? The Historical Time Theory of Film History
3 Relativist Perspectivism
4 The Discovery of Early Cinema
II Film History in the Making: Processes and Agendas
5 Consistency, Explosion, and the Writing of Film History
6 Defeats that Were Almost Victories
7 A Film-maker’s Film Histories
8 Hans Richter and the “Struggle for the Film History”
III Revisiting Film History: Institutions, Knowledge, and Circulation
9 Historicizing the Gulf Moving Image Archives
10 British Cultural Studies, Film History, and Forgotten Horizons of Cultural Analysis
11 The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism
12 What Was a Film Society?
IV Rewriting Film History with Images: Audiovisual Forms of Historiography
13 A Televisual Cinematheque Film Histories on West German Television
14 The History of Film on Film
15 Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age
V Into the Digital: New Approaches and Revisions
16 Future Pasts within the Dynamics of the Digital Present Digitized Films and the Clusters of Media Historiographic Experience
17 Tipping the Scales of Film History
18 Representing the Unknown
Select Bibliography
Index