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.engGeschichtsschreibungFilmgeschichteOntologieecocinemaworld cinemainterdisciplinarity79110.25969/mediarep/154542627-5848