How Film Histories Were Made

Malte Hagener is Professor of Media and Film Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. His publications include (with Thomas Elsaesser) Film Theory. An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge 2010, 2nd revised edition 2015). He is the co-editor of Handbuch Filmanalyse (Wiesbaden: Springer 2020; with Volker Pantenburg) and the editor of The Emergence of Film Culture. Knowledge Production, Institution Building and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945. London: Berghahn 2014. Yvonne Zimmermann is Professor of Media Studies at Philipps-University Marburg. Recent books include the co-authored Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures>/cite> (AUP 2021) and the co-edited Films That Work Harder: The Global Circulations of Industrial Cinema (AUP 2023). She is the editor of a special issue on Asta Nielsen, the film star system and the introduction of the long feature film in Early Popular Visual Culture (2021).

• Introduction Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann: Unpacking Film History’s Own Histories: An Archaeology of Film Historiography Models of Film Historiography – Philosophy and Time Thomas Elsaesser: The Aporias of Cinema History Jane M. Gaines: What Next?: The Historical Time Theory of Film History Nicholas Baer: Relativist Perspectivism: Caligari and the Crisis of Historicism Heide Schlüpmann: The Discovery of Early Cinema: The Moment of “Silence” Film History in the Making: Processes and Agendas Francesco Pitassio: Consistency, Explosion and the Writing of Film History: On Different Ways to Approach Film History at Different Times Masha Salazkina: Defeats that Were Almost Victories: Jay Leyda’s (Soviet) Archives Benoît Turquety: A Filmmaker’s Film Histories: Adjacency Historiography and the Art of the Anthology Yvonne Zimmermann: Hans Richter and the Struggle for the Film History Re-Visiting Film History: Institutions, Knowledge and Circulation Firat Oruc: Historicizing Gulf Moving Image Archives Charles R. Acland: Lost Revolution: British Cultural Studies in Film History Arvind Rajagopal: The Eclipse of Secular Realism: Notes on the Documentary Film from post-Cold War India Michael Cowan: What Was a Film Society? Towards a New Archaeology of Screen Communities Re-Writing Film History with Images: Audiovisual Forms of Historiography Volker Pantenburg: A Televisual Cinémathèque: Film Histories on West-German Television Eleftheria Thanouli: The History of Film on Film: Some Thoughts on Reflexive Documentaries Chiara Grizzaffi: Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age: From Found Footage Cinema to Online Videographic Criticism Into the Digital: New Approaches and Revisions Franziska Heller: Future Pasts within the Dynamics of the Digital Present. Digitised Films and the Clusters of Media Historiographic Experience Alexandra Schneider and Vinzenz Hediger: Tipping the Scales of Film History. A Note on Scalability and Film Historiography Sarah-Mai Dang: Representing the Unknown: A Critical Approach to Digital Data Visualisations in the Context of Feminist Film Historiography Select Bibliography Contributors Index