- Title
- Exposing the Film Apparatus
- Subtitle
- The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
- Price
- € 141,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089647184
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 478
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 03 - 2016
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Framing Film
- Partner
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Exposing the Film Apparatus
Giovanna Fossati and Annie van den Oever
Small and Portable
Cinema in My Pocket
Roger Odin
Uncanny Encounter: The iPhone and the Debrie Camera
Martine Beugnet
The Erasure of Analog Film Projection
Leenke Ripmeester
Ghosts of the Past: Frame Rates, Cranking and Access to Early Cinema
Marek Jancovic
Vitascope Movie-Maker: A Ludic Historiography
Guy Edmonds
Contextualizing the Apparatus: Film in the Turn-of-the-Century Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumers Guide's Department of Special Public Entertainment Outfits and Supplies
William Uricchio
Widescreen Anamorphic Lens
Steven Willemsen
The Introduction of Ciné-Kodak: "The Long-Awaited Answer"
Susan Aasman
The Orbit and Single Shot Cinema
Annelies van Noortwijk
The Video Compact Disc and the Digital Preservation of Indonesian National Cinema History
Ari Purnama
"Bolex Artists": Bolex Cameras, Amateurism, and the New York Film Avant-Garde
Barbara Turquier
The Tripod or "When Professionals Turn Amateur": A Plea for an Amateur Film Archaeology
Alexandra Schneider
Imagining the User of Portapak: Countercultural Agency for Everyone!
Tom Slootweg
Edison's Ideal and the Visual Technics of the Sublime
Gert Jan Harkema and Amanda du Preez
Medium and Not Easily Portable
A Legal Alien: The 16mm Projector in the Classroom
Eef Masson
The Analog Film Projector in Marijke van Warmerdam's Digitized Film Installations
Julia Noordegraaf
The Illusion of Movement, the Illusion of Color: The Kinemacolor Projector, Archaeology, and Epistemology
Benoît Turquety
Stenciling Technologies and the Hybridized Image in Early Cinema
Joshua Yumibe
Understanding Early Film Sound: The Biophon Sound-on-Disc System
Sonia Campanini
Digital Frontiers: 2k to 4k and Beyond
Ian Christie
Large and Not Portable
Geyer "Rekord" Continuous Contact Printer (c. 1935)
Martin Koerber
Jean-Luc Godard, the Video Editing Table and HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA as a Laboratory for an Art of Archives
Céline Scemama
Famous Facials: How We Got Ready for the Close-Up
Jan Holmberg
Digital Cinema, or: What Happens to the Dispositif?
Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk
3D Imaging Technology's Narrative Appropriation in Cinema
Miklós Kiss
Extending the Archival Life of Film: Presenting Film History with EYE Film Institute Netherlands' Panorama
Caylin Smith
The Database of Technical Devices: Describing, Cataloging, and Using Technical Devices in the Museum's Collections
Rommy Albers and Soeluh van den Berg
The Invisible Cinema
Julian Hanich
A Tale of Two Times: Augmented Reality as Archival Laboratory
Nanna Verhoeff
Notes
General Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Films
Reviews and Features
"[This] rich and extensive collection edited by Giovanna Fossati and Annie Van Den Oever represents a major book that significantly maps and expands perspectives and trajectories in the archaeology and history of technological media, and it represents a thought-provoking reflexion on the digital transition in the archival world." - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Andrea Mariani, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
'If dreams come true! The long desired collaboration between film archivists and film scholars has never been as fully realized as in this work, which is, itself, a genuine "research laboratory." Adopting an approach that constantly combines fundamental and applied research, the "materiality of the medium" is studied here in an entirely novel way. Starting with the digital turn, the essential problems of technique and technology have (finally!) returned to academic zeitgeist. Not surprising since the digital, which transformed our habits and customs as spectators and researchers, promotes a daily hands-on contact, producing a shockwave in the process. By "bridging archival and scholarly work on film apparatus" and recognizing the impact of the material turn (see the Introduction), Exposing the Film Apparatus will undoubtedly contribute to the upheaval of research methods and practices in cinema. ' -- André Gaudreault, Canada Research Chair in Cinema and Media Studies, Université de Montréal.
'We are only a handful of decades into the adventure of moving images, yet already there are so many common misunderstandings about the contexts in which and for which they have been produced. This is in large part because we neglect the technologies of moving image production. This excellent collection fizzes with new approaches to understanding the apparatuses of cinema. These machines once gave life to images; now it must be our mission to give life back to these machines.' -- John Ellis, Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London.
"This eclectic series of essays avoids the danger of prescribing how we each experience but more likely use the moving image, whilst providing a matrix of approaches to thinking about how and why those experiences are the way they are. As such, they will engage graduate and post-graduate audiences." - Mike Leggett, Leonardo Reviews
"The 29 contributions in Exposing the Film Apparatus are dedicated to detailed qualitative studies, which aim to explore rather than synthesise." - Fotografie und Film, original review in German
"A collection [of essays] that emphasises the importance of preservation" - Boekman reviews, original review in Dutch
'If dreams come true! The long desired collaboration between film archivists and film scholars has never been as fully realized as in this work, which is, itself, a genuine "research laboratory." Adopting an approach that constantly combines fundamental and applied research, the "materiality of the medium" is studied here in an entirely novel way. Starting with the digital turn, the essential problems of technique and technology have (finally!) returned to academic zeitgeist. Not surprising since the digital, which transformed our habits and customs as spectators and researchers, promotes a daily hands-on contact, producing a shockwave in the process. By "bridging archival and scholarly work on film apparatus" and recognizing the impact of the material turn (see the Introduction), Exposing the Film Apparatus will undoubtedly contribute to the upheaval of research methods and practices in cinema. ' -- André Gaudreault, Canada Research Chair in Cinema and Media Studies, Université de Montréal.
'We are only a handful of decades into the adventure of moving images, yet already there are so many common misunderstandings about the contexts in which and for which they have been produced. This is in large part because we neglect the technologies of moving image production. This excellent collection fizzes with new approaches to understanding the apparatuses of cinema. These machines once gave life to images; now it must be our mission to give life back to these machines.' -- John Ellis, Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London.
"This eclectic series of essays avoids the danger of prescribing how we each experience but more likely use the moving image, whilst providing a matrix of approaches to thinking about how and why those experiences are the way they are. As such, they will engage graduate and post-graduate audiences." - Mike Leggett, Leonardo Reviews
"The 29 contributions in Exposing the Film Apparatus are dedicated to detailed qualitative studies, which aim to explore rather than synthesise." - Fotografie und Film, original review in German
"A collection [of essays] that emphasises the importance of preservation" - Boekman reviews, original review in Dutch
Giovanna Fossati, Annie van den Oever (eds)
Exposing the Film Apparatus
The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
Film archives have long been dedicated to preserving movies, and they've been nimble in recent years in adapting to the changing formats and technologies through which cinema is now created and presented. This collection makes the case for a further step: the need to see media technologies themselves as objects of conservation, restoration, presentation, and research, in both film archives and film studies. Contributors with a wide range of expertise in the film and media world consider the practical and theoretical challenges posed by such conservation efforts and consider their potential to generate productive new possibilities in research and education in the field.
Editors
Giovanna Fossati
Giovanna Fossati is the chief curator of Eye Filmmuseum and professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Annie van den Oever
Annie van den Oever is a Professor of Film at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (since March 2024). Recent books: Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Theory(De Gruyter, 2022, with Andreas Fickers); and Visual Media, Distortions, and the Grotesque as a Dominant Format Today (AUP 2024, forthcoming).
