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.
Women in the Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate
1st Edition
By Annette Förster
May 21, 2019
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the...
From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition, Third Revised Edition
3rd Edition
By Giovanna Fossati
November 15, 2018
In From Grain to Pixel, Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization of the medium itself, Fossati poses significant questions about the status of physical film and the...
Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914
1st Edition
By Sarah Dellmann
October 06, 2018
Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Images of Dutchness investigates the roots of this visual repertoire from diverse sources, ...
The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen
1st Edition
By Claudy Op den Kamp
September 10, 2018
Orphan works, or artworks for which no copyright holder is traceable, pose a growing problem for museums, archives, and other heritage institutions. As they come under more and more pressure to digitize and share their archives, they are often hampered by the uncertain rights status of items in ...
The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Giovanna Fossati, Victoria Jackson, Bregt Lameris, Elif Rongen-Kaynakci, Sarah Street
April 18, 2018
Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film, scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology ...
Exposing the Film Apparatus: The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory
1st Edition
Edited
By Giovanna Fossati, Annie van den Oever
March 01, 2016
Film archives have long been dedicated to preserving movies, and they've been nimble in recent years in adapting to the changing formats and technologies through which cinema is now created and presented. This collection makes the case for a further step: the need to see media technologies ...
Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren
1st Edition
By Patricia Pisters
November 30, 2015
Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentaries and two feature films-to say nothing of artworks and books., Filming for the Future offers an extended exploration of Van Gasteren's work and ...
Multiple Language Versions Made in BABELsberg: Ufa's International Strategy, 1929-1939
1st Edition
By Chris Wahl
November 17, 2015
This volume is the first book-length study of the international phenomenon of multiple-language versions of new films from the early days of the sound era. Ufa Studios in Babelsberg, Germany, took the approach of shooting versions of each film in several different languages using German-speaking or...
Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Noordegraaf, Vinzenz Hediger, Cosetta Saba, Barbara Le Maitre
January 28, 2013
This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the emergence of time-based media such as film, video and digital technology, artists ...