Books – Catherine Russell

New Books Network podcast about Archiveology

[Listen to the podcast] In her book Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Duke University Press, 2018), Catherine Russell
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Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation,
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The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity

Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905–69)
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Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video

Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the
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Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure and New Wave Cinemas

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell illustrates in this
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Classical Japanese Cinema

The book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modelled on Hollywood. The classical period refers to the years in
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