New Silent Cinema

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contents
list of figures
introduction: celluloid specters, digital anachronisms
1. alice in the archives
2. eternally early
3. “historicity begins with decay and ends with the pretense of immortality”
4. paris 1900: archiveology and the compilation film
5. after life, early cinema: remaking the past with hirokazu kore-eda
6. playback, play-forward: anna may wong in double exposure
7. the living nickelodeon and silent film sound today
8. intertext as archive: méliès, hugo, and new silent cinema
9. cross-medial afterlives: the film archive in contemporary fiction
10. supposing that the archive is a woman
11. the life cycle of an analog medium: tacita dean’s film
12. from silence to babel: farocki’s image infoscape
13. found memories of film history: industry in a post-industrial world, cinema in a post-filmic age
14. a youtube bestiary: twenty-six theses on a post-cinema of animal attractions
15. laughter in an ungoverned sphere: actuality humor in early cinema and web 2.0
16. “the biggest kuleshov experiment ever”
contributors
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