Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Birkbeck College
Chapter title
Film begets television : l'histoire audiovisuelle du cinéma
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Editions Harmattan
Book title
Lorsque Clio S'empare Du Documentaire: Ecriture de l'histoire
ISBN of book
9782296550148
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This essay investigates the field of “audiovisual film history” i.e. when filmmakers use the means and techniques of film to do the work of film history: recording, analysing and narrating the past in relation to the present. The discussion focuses on three examples of film series made for television: Kevin Brownlow’s Hollywood, Noël Burch’s What Do Those Old Films Mean?, and Ian Christie’s The Last Machine. The argument contextualises the production of these three works, and then analyses in detail one episode of each series, focusing on the representation of cinema’s “beginnings” in each case.
