{"product_id":"bad-film-histories-ethnography-and-the-early-archive-hardback-9781517900328","title":"Bad Film Histories; Ethnography and the Early Archive (Hardback) 9781517900328","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBad Film Histories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEthnography and the Early Archive\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatherine Groo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517900328\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 February 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 30\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 5.1 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stimulating and necessary . . . \u003ci\u003eBad Film Histories\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important theoretical intervention into early cinema history. Katherine Groo prompts us to question our assumptions-to throw away the film-historical map-and to keep moving along multiple trajectories.\"-Alice Maurice, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With this book, Katherine Groo establishes the necessary and productive incoherence of film historical inquiry by insisting on certain structuring non-relations between artifact and historical knowledge, between ethnographic subject and scientific investigator, between film and its content, and between the world and its index. \u003ci\u003eBad Film Histories\u003c\/i\u003e devastatingly reveals how our current film historical knowledge is entirely without basis, leaving us to wonder what today might constitute an adequate account of the cinema; the solution-as Groo brilliantly argues-is that this is precisely the wrong question to ask.\"-Mark Lynn Anderson, author of \u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad Film Histories\u003c\/i\u003e 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 a rigorous corrective. Taking ethnographic cinema as a crucial case study, Groo challenges standard ways of thinking and writing about film history and questions widespread assumptions about what film artifacts are and what makes them meaningful. Rather than filling holes, Groo endeavors to understand the imprecisions and absences that define film history and its archives. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad Film Histories \u003c\/i\u003edraws on numerous works of ethnographic cinema, from Edward S. Curtis’s I\u003ci\u003en the Land of the Head Hunters\u003c\/i\u003e, to a CitroËn-sponsored “croisiÈre” across Africa, to the extensive archives of the Maison LumiÈre and the MusÉe Albert-Kahn, to dozens of expedition films from the 1910s and 1920s. The project is deeply grounded in poststructural approaches to history, and throughout Groo draws on these frameworks to offer innovative and accessible readings that explain ethnographic cinema’s destabilizing energies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Groo describes, ethnographic works are mostly untitled, unauthored, seemingly infinite in number, and largely unrestored even in their digital afterlives. Her examination of ethnographic cinema provides necessary new thought for both film scholars and those who are thrilled by cinema’s boundless possibilities. In so doing, she boldly reexamines what early ethnographic cinema is and how these films produce meaning, challenging the foundations of film history and prevailing approaches to the archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Untimely Historiographies, Ethnographic Particularities\u003cbr\u003e1. Of Other Archives: The Excursive Minors of La Maison LumiÈre and Les Archives de la PlanÈte \u003cbr\u003e2. Historical Figures: Dance and the Unlettered Line\u003cbr\u003e3. Following Derrida: Ethnocinematic Animals, Death Effects, and the Supplement of Expedition Cinema \u003cbr\u003e4. Language Games, or the World Intertitled\u003cbr\u003e5. Ethnography Won’t Wait: New Media and Material Histories\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619239653656,"sku":"9781517900328","price":68.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bad-film-histories-ethnography-and-the-early-archive-hardback-9781517900328","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}