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(0)Volker Pantenburg
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
This book brings together two major filmmakers-German avant-gardist Harun Farocki and French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard-to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory."
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Technical censorship of pictures is omnipresent and invisible at the same time. Content moderation on social media and automatic deletions by algorithms have given rise to a new union of human and non-human protagonists. While traditional institutions of censorship regulated the impact of dangerous pictures based on legal and religious norms, automated mechanisms controlled by international corporations do so today. In the public sphere of technical...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
This book is specifically dedicated to film history's own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions and hidden agendas that determine film historiography until today, also with the aim to act as a critical reflection on the potential future orientation...