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Histoires d'appareils / Tales from the Vaults (2023)
La technologie du cinéma à travers les années et les continents
Dir. Louis Pelletier and Rachael Stoeltje
(in French and English)
Subject: History of Cinema
Making Stereo Fit (2024)
The History of a Disquieting Film Technology
Everyday Movies (2020)
Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture
Subject: Technique > Projection
Electric Sounds (2007)
Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
The Routledge Companion to American Film History (2025)
Dir. Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood
Subject: History of Cinema
Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War (2025)
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Dir. Stefano Pisu, Francesco Pitassio and Maurizio Zinni
Subject: History of Cinema
Technologies of History
Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past
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Technologies of History is an engrossing and innovative consideration of how history is constructed today, exploring our most basic relationship to history and the diverse contributions of visual and computational media to conceptions of the past. Embracing the varieties of history offered by experimental film, television, video games, and digital media, Steve F. Anderson mines the creative and discursive potential of this profane and esoteric historiography. He offers a highly readable and consistently fascinating discussion of historiography in visual media, with an emphasis on alternate or fantastic histories, including Star Trek time travel episodes, fake documentaries, films created from home movies and found footage, and video games about cultural traumas such as the siege at Waco and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Examining artifacts from the most commercial Hollywood product to the modernist avant-garde, this bold and ambitious polemic seeks to address historians, media scholars, and general readers alike, encouraging all to recognize, engage with, and perhaps even learn from these heterodox histories and the powerful sway they hold over our historical consciousness.
> From the same author:
Reclaiming Popular Documentary (2021)
by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson
Subject: Genre > Documentary
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