4 The Discovery of Early Cinema

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 9
4. Introduction: Unpacking Film History’s Own Histories 13
5. I Models of Film Historiography: Philosophy and Time
6. 1 The Aporias of Cinema History 45
7. 2 What Next? The Historical Time Theory of Film History 59
8. 3 Relativist Perspectivism 85
9. 4 The Discovery of Early Cinema 119
10. II Film History in the Making: Processes and Agendas
11. 5 Consistency, Explosion, and the Writing of Film History 133
12. 6 Defeats that Were Almost Victories 163
13. 7 A Film-maker’s Film Histories 189
14. 8 Hans Richter and the “Struggle for the Film History” 209
15. III Revisiting Film History: Institutions, Knowledge, and Circulation
16. 9 Historicizing the Gulf Moving Image Archives 235
17. 10 British Cultural Studies, Film History, and Forgotten Horizons of Cultural Analysis 263
18. 11 The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism 283
19. 12 What Was a Film Society? 315
20. IV Rewriting Film History with Images: Audiovisual Forms of Historiography
21. 13 A Televisual Cinematheque Film Histories on West German Television 347
22. 14 The History of Film on Film 371
23. 15 Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age 389
24. V Into the Digital: New Approaches and Revisions
25. 16 Future Pasts within the Dynamics of the Digital Present Digitized Films and the Clusters of Media Historiographic Experience 417
26. 17 Tipping the Scales of Film History 445
27. 18 Representing the Unknown 467
28. Select Bibliography 495
29. Index 519