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"Bolex Artists" : Bolex cameras, Amateurism, and New York avant-garde film
(Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
Designed by Jacques Bogopolsky in 1928, the Bolex camera was first commercialized
by the Swiss firm Paillard-Bolex in 1935. The model shown here is an H16, the firm’s
emblematic 16mm model, from 1952. The camera measures ...
Digital cinema or what happens to the dispositif?
(Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
The digital cinema package :
Created in 2005 by the Digital Cinema Initiatives—a group of Hollywood majors
that formed a joint venture in 2002,—the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is a wrapper
containing images, sound, ...
The use of bibliometrics for assessing research : possibilities, limitations and adverse effects
(2015)
Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in the ...
The case for an epistemography of montage : the Marey moment
(Amsterdam University Press, 2010)
Projected cinema (a hypothesis on the cinema’s imagination)
(Amsterdam University Press, 2010)
The 1900 episteme
(Amsterdam University Press, 2010)
The Concept of phenomenology in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre of 1804/II
(De Gruyter, 2010)
Fichte characterizes the second part of his Doctrine of Science of 1804 with the term «
phenomenology », to which he assigns a double meaning : theory of illusion (Schein) and theory of
phenomenon (Erscheinung). If the ...
Contextualizing the apparatus : film in the turn-of-the-century Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Consumers guide
(Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
The Sears, Roebuck & CO. 1898 Consumers Guide
Published by America and Canada’s largest mail order company, the 10.8 x 8.5 inches
(27.4 x 21.6 cm), 1120-page catalog was filled with illustrations, descriptions, ...
The illusion of movement, the illusion of color : the Kinemacolor projector, archaeology and epistemology
(Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
The Kinemacolor projector : Produced between 1910 and 1914 by Natural Color Kinematograph Co., Kinemacolor
projectors used panchromatized black-and-white 35mm film. The Kinemacolor projector in the Will Day collection at ...
Fichte, Schleiermacher and W. von Humboldt : on the creation of the University of Berlin
(Rodopi, 2010)
On the eve of the foundation of the University of Berlin, Wilhelm von Humboldt
was in charge of choosing between the various proposals submitted for the organization of the
future institution. Since he had to choose for ...