Nastrój nowoczesności. Doświadczenie filmu, nowe sposoby widzenia i optymizm w archiwum Pierre’a Francastela
An Atmosphere of Modernity: The Experience of Film, New Ways of Seeing and Optimism in the Archive of Pierre Francastel

Summary/Abstract: Leśniak reads the works of French art sociologist Pierre Francastel in relation to the notion of atmosphere. Leśniak argues that besides analysing previously unpublished documents from Francastel’s archive – including unpublished texts on the experience of film – scholars should also direct their attention to the atmosphere of the archive – the material traces of modern optimism, evidence of faith in progress. This kind of research makes it possible to think of modernity in terms of affect.

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