New Silent Cinema

Paul Flaig is Lecturer of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. His articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Screen, a: the journal of culture and the unconscious, The Brecht Year Book as well as several edited collections. Katherine Groo is Lecturer of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen and Co-Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture. Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Framework, and Frames.

Introduction: Celluloid Specters, Digital Anachronisms Paul Flaig and Katherine Groo 1. Alice in the Archives Katherine Groo 2. Eternally Early Brian Price 3. "Historicity begins with decay and ends with the pretense of immortality": An Interview with Paolo Cherchi Usai 4. Paris 1900: Archiveology and the Compilation Film Catherine Russell 5. After Life, Early Cinema: Remaking the Past with Hirokazu Kore-eda Jonah Corne 6. Playback, Play-forward: Anna May Wong in Double Exposure Yiman Wang 7. The Living Nickelodeon and Silent Film Sound Today: An Interview with Professor Rick Altman 8. Intertext As Archive: Méliès​, Hugo, and New Silent Cinema Constance Balides 9. Cross-Medial Afterlives: The Film Archive in Contemporary Fiction Joshua Yumibe 10. Supposing that the Archive is a Woman Paul Flaig 11. The Life Cycle of an Analog Medium: Tacita Dean’s FILM Jennifer Lynn Peterson 12. From Silence to Babel: Farocki’s Image Infoscape Brianne Cohen 13. Found Memories of Film History: Industry in a Post-Industrial World, Cinema in a Post-Filmic Age Brian Jacobson 14. A YouTube Bestiary: Twenty-Six Theses on a Post-Cinema of Animal Attractions James Leo Cahill 15. Laughter in an Ungoverned Sphere: Actuality Humor in Early Cinema and Web 2.0 Rob King 16. "The Biggest Kuleshov Experiment Ever": A Conversation with Guy Maddin about Séances