2 | Research, Debates and Projects 2.0
Recent Submissions
- ArticleMexican Public Health History through Film: The Riches of a Film Archive, 1945–1970Gudiño, María Rosa (2019) , S. 1-10
- ArticleFilm as Instrument of Social Enquiry: The British Documentary Film Movement of the 1930sRüffert, Christine (2019) , S. 1-10
- ArticleBe Part of History: Documentary Film and Mass Participation in the Age of YouTubePetraitis, Marian (2019) , S. 1-19
- ArticleTrapped in Amber: The New Materialities of MemoryElsaesser, Thomas (2019) , S. 1-15The term ‘obsolescence’ has in recent years re-entered the vocabulary of the art world, memory studies and new media historians. In the process, it has significantly changed its meaning and enlarged its semantic and evaluative range, even signifying something like heroic resistance to relentless new-ness or superficial novelty, even becoming the badge of honour for all that is no longer useful (for capitalism, for appropriation, for instrumental objectification). Anyone engaged with ‘found footage’ films, with home movies or our analogue cinematic legacy knows that the strategic use of obsolescence lies in the fact that it is a term that inevitably associates with both capitalism and technology. Hence obsolescence is of special interest in the context of contemporary cinema, since it provides a counterweight – the materiality of memory, and the methodology of media archaeology – to the immateriality and virtuality of the digital. But the obsolescence of celluloid also gives us a kind of ‘fossil record’ of what has become of the filmic ‘medium’ when we see it in the broader context of the ‘geological’ time of media, and as part of the ‘archival’ turn that memory studies have taken in the 21st century.
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- ArticleVisibility and Torture: On the Appropriation of Surveillance Footage in YOU DON’T LIKE THE TRUTHKöthe, Sebastian (2019) , S. 1-9
- ArticleLiberated on Film: Images and Narratives of Camp Liberation in Historical Footage and Feature FilmsWeckel, Ulrike (2019-11-25) , S. 1-21
- ArticleIssue 2: Research, Debates and Projects 2.0. EditorialGreiner, Rasmus (2019) , S. 1-3