During the past decade, the international study of non-theatrical cinematic forms has seen a strong expansion - with amateur film as a central area of research. Changing collection policies in film archives and museums and new forms of digital access are not the only reasons for this interest. However, the major impulse to current debates comes from contributions based on an analysis of archival holdings. Abenteuer Alltag. Zur Archaologie des Amateurfilms is the first German-language publication to give an overview of amateur film research in Europe, presenting essays on topics such as the...

Der Band befasst sich mit dem k. u. k. Kriegspressequartier (KPQ), das von seiner Entstehung und Komplexitat her unter den kriegsfuhrenden Landern des Ersten Weltkriegs einzigartig war. Die Aufsatze widmen sich zum einen jenen Massnahmen, die das KPQ anordnete, leitete und kontrollierte. Dazu gehorten die Kriegsberichterstattung in journalistischen Frontberichten und fotografischen Dokumentationen, die Verarbeitung des Krieges mittels Malerei oder das Festhalten des Kriegsgeschehens mit der Filmkamera. Zum anderen bewerten die Autoren die Propagandamassnahmen innerhalb eines breiteren...

?Films, in their generic, stylistic, and rhetorical variety, are modes of experience that provide a sense for the unexpected dynamics of urban life and historical reality. This understanding of cinema, as loving as it is theoretical, inspired the writings on film which form a central part of the wide-ranging work of Austrian historian Siegfried Mattl. From the political imaginary of well-known "historical films" by Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, John Woo, and Todd Haynes, to inter-war comedies and post-war educational films highlighting the changing socio-economic textures of Vienna, and on...