Framing Film
About the Book Series
Framing Film is a book series dedicated to theoretical and analytical studies in restoration, collection, archival, and exhibition practices in line with the existing archive of Eye Filmmuseum. The series, published in association with the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, aims to support the academic research community, as well as practitioners in archive and restoration.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) if you have any questions about the series or wish to submit a book proposal.
The Jew in Dutch Cinema: Images, Stereotypes and National Identity
1st Edition
By Eyal Boers
June 22, 2026
This book is a pioneer study of the image of the Jew in Dutch cinema within the context of national cinema and identity. The image of the Jew is examined from the 1914 silent film "Weergevonden", through antisemitic films produced in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation, Dutch films of the first...
Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive
1st Edition
Edited
By Nezih Erdogan, Ebru Kayaalp
January 10, 2026
Film archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appropriation, and academic reinterpretation of film material that demand scholarly attention. Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive aims to fill this demand...
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film
1st Edition
By Peter Verstraten
January 10, 2026
Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a Hollandse school, a term first coined in the 1980s, has developed through deadpan, ironic films like those of director and ...
Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography: The Case of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (1946-2000)
1st Edition
By Bregt Lameris
January 09, 2026
Rich in detail, this is a study of the interrelationships between film historical discourse and archival practices. Exploring the history of several important collections from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Bregt Lameris shows how archival films and collections always carry the historical traces...
The Conscience of Cinema: The works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989
1st Edition
By Thomas Waugh
January 09, 2026
This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history...
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital
1st Edition
By Grazia Ingravalle
December 30, 2025
Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and ...
Exposing the Film Apparatus: Global Laboratory Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Giovanna Fossati, Annie van den Oever
December 19, 2025
This book addresses the growing awareness of the historical collections of film and media devices in film archives and media museums. Over thirty experts reflect on the prominent roles media technologies play in a range of social, cultural, curatorial, and educational practices as well as in ...
Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Peter Verstraten
December 01, 2025
Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis is a sequel to Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (AUP, 2016), but the two studies can be read separately. Because of the sheer variety of Fons Rademakers’ oeuvre, which spans ‘art’ cinema and cult, genre film and historical ...
Images of Occupation in Dutch Film: Memory, Myth, and the Cultural Legacy of War
1st Edition
By Wendy Burke
December 01, 2025
The German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II left a lasting mark on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore depictions of that period in films made a generation later, between 1962 and 1986. As Dutch public opinion towards the war altered over the postwar decades...
Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives and Affects
1st Edition
By Senta Siewert
December 01, 2025
Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from festivals, museums, and ...
The Films of Bill Morrison: Aesthetics of the Archive
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernd Herzogenrath
December 01, 2025
Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and his 2002 film Decasia was selected for the...
Collecting Cinema, Rewriting Film History: Between the Visible and the Invisible
1st Edition
Edited
By André Habib, Louis Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan
August 05, 2025
The writing of cinema history would not be possible without the contribution of collectors. Whether through their pioneering excavation work or their passionate defence of forgotten productions and artifacts, collectors have had a lasting influence on both the field and the methods of moving image ...