Book chapter
What Was a Film Society?: Towards a New Archaeology of Screen Communities
How Film Histories Were Made, pp.315-346
Amsterdam University Press
2024
DOI: 10.5117/9789463724067-16
Abstract
Focusing on German film culture of the early twentieth century, this chapter outlines a new approach for examining the emergence and development of film societies in the context of a broader associational culture. To that end, it draws on insights from media archaeology and histories of sociability to approach the film society as a phenomenon at once more diverse than generally acknowledged and held together by a desire to shape a nascent medium by influencing how the public engaged with it. Following a broad discussion of this approach, I outline three key categories-what I call relations, productions, and ideas-that can help us understand specific aspects of film societies: their genealogy, their operations, and their legacy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- What Was a Film Society?: Towards a New Archaeology of Screen Communities
- Creators
- Michael Cowan
- Contributors
- Malte Hagener (Editor)Yvonne Zimmermann (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- How Film Histories Were Made, pp.315-346
- DOI
- 10.5117/9789463724067-16
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press; Amsterdam
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984969238102771
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