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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCounter-Archive is a groundbreaking, original and scholarly book, which is indispensable to a full understanding of the early and present history of the cinema and its relationship to the archive and the everyday. -- Barbara Creed H-France an ambitious and compelling book which elegantly ties meticulous archival detail to astute theoretical challenges, and its conceptual hook may well inspire further critical attention. -- Tara Blake Wilson New Formations A work of exceptional scholarly merit. -- Jan Baetens Biography ...rich and endearing study... -- Lisabeth During and Deborah Levitt Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. World Souvenir: "Mr. K" and the Archives de la Planete 2. "Keep your eyes open": From Pre-documentary to Documentary Film in the Kahn Archive 3. The Counter-Archive of Cinematic Memory: Bergsonism, la duree, and the Everyday 4. "No more written archives, only films": Early Discourses and Practices of the Film Archive 5. The "anecdotal side of history": Temporality, Film, and Annales Historiography 6. Seeing "for the first time": The Rediscovery of the Everyday in Early French Film Theory 7. Illuminations from the Darkened "Sanctuary": Reception of the Kahn Films 8. The Aerial View: Human Geography, Cosmopolitanism, and Colonialism Conclusion: Toute la Memoire du monde: The Counter-Archive Beyond Kahn Appendix: Photographers and Cameramen of the Archives de la Planete Notes Bibliography Index
