Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planete (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. Tracing the archive's key influ...(展开全部)

A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives Bad Film Histories is a vital work that unsettles the authority of the archive. Katherine Groo daringly takes readers to the margins of the film record, addressing the undertheorization of film history and offering...(展开全部)

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for th...(展开全部)

Following the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film production efficiency and serve Japan’s propaganda needs. Manchuria Film Association had two tasks: to make “national policy films” as part of a cultural mission of educating Chinese in Manchukuo (the puppet state created in 1932) on t...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not jus...(展开全部)

La obra de Macedonio Fernández encarna la autonomía de la plena ficción. Su influencia en el joven Borges fue definitiva. Dos intuiciones bastaron: la obsesión por la obra dentro de la propia obra y la concepción onírica de la realidad. Y así comenzó la leyenda de Macedonio Fernández cuya genealogía aún debemos descifrar en Borges. En el "Museo de la Novela de la Eterna" encier...(展开全部)

马塞多尼奥·费尔南德斯(Macedonio Fernández，1874—1952) 阿根廷作家、哲学家，是博尔赫斯和许多阿根廷先锋作家的导师，在很多方面影响了博尔赫斯及其他西语作家的文学创作。他从1925年开始创作《永恒之人的小说博物馆》，此后一生都致力于这部小说的创作。1952年，马塞多尼奥去世，15年后他的儿子整理了这部小说的手稿并将其出版，在西语文学界引起极大反响，被认为是阿根廷20世纪最伟大的作品之一。

La presente edicion restituye con el mayor rigor los pasos y los procedimientos que condujeron a elaborar este vasto proyecto. Los colaboradores de esta obra son: Alicia Borinsky, Ana Maria Camblong, Jo Anne Engelbert, Waltraut Flammersfeld, Gerardo Mario Goloboff, Alfonso de Obieta y Nelida Salvador.