Stare i nowe. Wprowadzenie do mitologii historiografii filmowej
The Old and the New. Introduction to the Mythology of Film Historiography

Summary/Abstract: The past of film historiography is now a domain of myth and requires work in restoring awareness of the variety of material conditions of production of knowledge, their ideological base, and consequently multiplicity of places that are sources of critical thought on cinema. The author agrees with the diagnoses of Philippe Gauthier, and analyses the way in which film historians describe their own history. This narrative is based on the opposition between the New Film History and the “traditional historiography”. The opposition of these two formations gives an oversimplified image of methodological progress and obscures the fact that researchers unified under the label of New Film History, represent often conflicting perspectives. Discontinuities that are impossible to miss, make one reconsider the category of “traditional film history”, which seems to concoct “joyful brightness” at the expense of historical antinomy.

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