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Archiveology

Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices. A Camera Obscura book

By (author) Catherine Russell
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina, United States
Published: 28th Mar 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 19mm
Weight: 478g
ISBN-10: 082237045X
ISBN-13: 9780822370451
Barcode No: 9780822370451
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In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers-provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, Russell examines a range of films alongside Benjamin's conceptions of memory, document, excavation, and historiography. She shows how city films such as Nicole Vedres's Paris 1900 (1947) and Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) reconstruct notions of urban life and uses Christian Marclay's The Clock (2010) to draw parallels between critical cinephilia and Benjamin's theory of the phantasmagoria. Russell also discusses practices of collecting in archiveological film and rereads films by Joseph Cornell and Rania Stephan to explore an archival practice that dislocates and relocates the female image in film. In so doing, she not only shows how Benjamin's work is as relevant to film theory as ever; she shows how archiveology can awaken artists and audiences to critical forms of history and memory.

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"Archiveology opens up yet more rich and very pertinent questions relating to film-making as an archival practice in which themes of time, memory and imagination are fluidly interwoven and fleshed out as new cinematic experiences." -- Davina Quinlivan * Times Higher Education * "Archiveology is a refreshing for film archivists looking to expand their horizons and better understand potential users. . . . Catherine Russell's masterful explanations ensure that the book remains accessible to readers from all disciplines." -- Kristen E. Muenz * Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies * "Archiveology offers insightful analyses enlightened by Benjamin's legacy. . . . Catherine Russell adds authority to a new model of cultural intelligibility that we can use to rescue voices relegated to oblivion." -- Cesar Ustarroz * Found Footage * "Archiveology is. . . one of the few books of film theory and criticism that takes Benjamin seriously in all of his complexity, and, more importantly and innovatively, shows us the mechanics of what one can do with the concepts in an era of disturbingly unstable media." -- Joshua Wiebe * Film and History *