Paalman, Floris2021-03-042021-03-042021-01-28https://film-history.org/issues/text/film-and-history-towards-general-ontologyhttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/16267In order to bridge the gap between history and film history as academic disciplines, for both fields to benefit from it, scholars need to draw a theory of the function and position of film in society and develop a general ontology of cinema. A fruitful prospect for such a revisionist endeavour can be found in the emergence of world cinema history that over the last decade has developed as a field in which the social function of cinema is being related to issues of representation while taking economic conditions of production and consumption into account.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 GenericGeschichtsschreibungFilmgeschichteOntologieecocinemaworld cinemainterdisciplinarity79110.25969/mediarep/154542627-5848