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Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner (1896â1983). From her early years as a film critic in interwar Berlin to her escape from prison in occupied France and from her role as chief curator at the CinĂŠmathèque française to that as the mythic "collective conscience" of New German Cinema, Eisner was a prolific writer and lecturer and a pivotal voice in early film and media studies. Situated at the juncture of feminist media historiography and disciplinary intellectual history, this groundbreaking book is based on extensive multilingual archival research and the excavation of a rich corpus of previously overlooked materials. Introducing samples of Eisner's writing in translation, this volume makes some of the most important contributions of a foundational scholar in the field of film studies accessible for the first time to an English-language readership.
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Table of contents
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1ââ˘âFräulein Doktor Eisner
- 2ââ˘âA Reluctant Bellwether: Dr. L. H. Eisner and Flapper at the Film-Kurier, 1927â1933
- 3ââ˘ââLa seule historienneâ: Exile, Salvage, and Community at the CinĂŠmathèque Française
- 4ââ˘ââLacunae Everywhereâ: Iterative Historiography and the Midcentury Palimpsests
- Conclusion: The Woolly Mammoth of the CinÊmathèque
- Appendix: Film-Kurier Bibliography, by the Numbers
- Notes
- References
- Index