Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

by Catherine Russell

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370573
• ISBN13: 9780822370574
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"