Paul Flaig
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Flaig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Flaig |
| SIGNATURE | FLAIG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4608-2091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Katharina Loew, Special Effects and German Silent Film
From Walter Benjamin to Friedrich Kittler to Wolfgang Ernst, there is an influential genealogy of German film and media theory that has sought to oppose technical media like cinema to the traditional artwork. Whether understood as aura versus reproducibility (Benjamin), Discourse Network 1800 versus Discourse Network 1900 (Kittler) or the aesthetics of art history versus the cold gaze of media archaeology (Ernst), this opposition has depended on …
Yesterday’s Hadaly
This essay offers a feminist critique and correction of media archaeology. Media archaeology has developed over the last two decades as a historiographic response to increasingly advanced contemporary media technologies and, with them, changing accounts and archives of earlier analog media networks. Redressing the absence of an explicitly feminist media archaeology, the essay focuses on the medium of the gendered telephonic voice and the method o…
Supposing that the archive is a woman
This chapter traces the complexities of perception, hallucination, and gendered matter within the archives of film history. The Film of Her transforms Howard Walls into a nameless clerk, one heroically responsible for re-discovering the Paper Print Collection, but tragically displaced by official history is fired and forgotten, a Niver-esque figure stealing credit and spotlight. From early life to early cinema to individual childhood, section of …
New Silent Cinema
Life driven by death
Many approaches to animation underscore a double relationship to life and movement, a relationship that, according to the seminal book Disney Animation: the Illusion of Life , should be expressed in realistic motion, linear narrative and empathetic characterization. Implicit in this formulation is a kind of death behind the illusion, one that is often theorized as a moment of stasis, the fundamental condition for animation's life. This essay argu…
Yesterday’s Hadaly
This essay offers a feminist critique and correction of media archaeology. Media archaeology has developed over the last two decades as a historiographic response to increasingly advanced contemporary media technologies and, with them, changing accounts and archives of earlier analog media networks. Redressing the absence of an explicitly feminist media archaeology, the essay focuses on the medium of the gendered telephonic voice and the method o…
Life driven by death
Many approaches to animation underscore a double relationship to life and movement, a relationship that, according to the seminal book Disney Animation: the Illusion of Life , should be expressed in realistic motion, linear narrative and empathetic characterization. Implicit in this formulation is a kind of death behind the illusion, one that is often theorized as a moment of stasis, the fundamental condition for animation's life. This essay argu…
Life driven by death
Many approaches to animation underscore a double relationship to life and movement, a relationship that, according to the seminal book Disney Animation: the Illusion of Life , should be expressed in realistic motion, linear narrative and empathetic characterization. Implicit in this formulation is a kind of death behind the illusion, one that is often theorized as a moment of stasis, the fundamental condition for animation's life. This essay argu…
Supposing that the archive is a woman
This chapter traces the complexities of perception, hallucination, and gendered matter within the archives of film history. The Film of Her transforms Howard Walls into a nameless clerk, one heroically responsible for re-discovering the Paper Print Collection, but tragically displaced by official history is fired and forgotten, a Niver-esque figure stealing credit and spotlight. From early life to early cinema to individual childhood, section of …
New Silent Cinema
Yesterday’s Hadaly
This essay offers a feminist critique and correction of media archaeology. Media archaeology has developed over the last two decades as a historiographic response to increasingly advanced contemporary media technologies and, with them, changing accounts and archives of earlier analog media networks. Redressing the absence of an explicitly feminist media archaeology, the essay focuses on the medium of the gendered telephonic voice and the method o…
Katharina Loew, Special Effects and German Silent Film
From Walter Benjamin to Friedrich Kittler to Wolfgang Ernst, there is an influential genealogy of German film and media theory that has sought to oppose technical media like cinema to the traditional artwork. Whether understood as aura versus reproducibility (Benjamin), Discourse Network 1800 versus Discourse Network 1900 (Kittler) or the aesthetics of art history versus the cold gaze of media archaeology (Ernst), this opposition has depended on …
Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Animation (1 works)