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Edition

Fist Edition

Description

1 online resource (274 pages)

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Series

Film Culture in Transition

Film culture in transition.

JSTOR open access.

Summary

This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a diverse array of groups, it approaches film societies as formations designed to assimilate and influence a new medium: a project emerging from the world of amateur science before taking new directions into industry, art and politics. Through an interdisciplinary approach-in dialogue with social history, print history and media archaeology-it also transforms our theoretical understanding of what a film society was and how it operated. Far from representing a mere collection of pre-formed cinephiles, film societies were, according to the book's central argument, productive social formations, which taught people how to nurture their passion for the movies, how to engage with cinema, and how to interact with each other. Ultimately, the study argues that examining film societies can help to reveal the diffuse agency by which generative ideas of cinema take shape.

Language

In English.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Motion pictures -- Societies, etc. -- History.

Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.

Films, cinema.

HISTORY / Europe / Germany.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.

Motion pictures -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01027384

Motion pictures -- Societies, etc. (OCoLC)fst01027387

Austria. (OCoLC)fst01204901

Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272

Films, cinema.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Indexed Term

Film societies, German cinema, Austrian cinema, film culture, film journals, media archaeology, scientific film, film industries, cinephilia, film activism.

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Electronic books.

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

ISBN

9048555728 (electronic bk.)

9789048555727 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.

10.1515/9789048555727 doi