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Stimulating and necessary . . . Bad Film Histories makes an important theoretical intervention into early cinema history. Katherine Groo prompts us to question our assumptions--to throw away the film-historical map--and to keep moving along multiple trajectories. --Alice Maurice, author of The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema With this book, Katherine Groo establishes the necessary and productive incoherence of film historical inquiry by insisting on certain structuring non-relations between artifact and historical knowledge, between ethnographic subject and scientific investigator, between film and its content, and between the world and its index. Bad Film Histories devastatingly reveals how our current film historical knowledge is entirely without basis, leaving us to wonder what today might constitute an adequate account of the cinema; the solution--as Groo brilliantly argues--is that this is precisely the wrong question to ask. --Mark Lynn Anderson, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

Stimulating and necessary . . . Bad Film Histories makes an important theoretical intervention into early cinema history. Katherine Groo prompts us to question our assumptions-to throw away the film-historical map-and to keep moving along multiple trajectories. -Alice Maurice, author of The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema With this book, Katherine Groo establishes the necessary and productive incoherence of film historical inquiry by insisting on certain structuring non-relations between artifact and historical knowledge, between ethnographic subject and scientific investigator, between film and its content, and between the world and its index. Bad Film Histories devastatingly reveals how our current film historical knowledge is entirely without basis, leaving us to wonder what today might constitute an adequate account of the cinema; the solution-as Groo brilliantly argues-is that this is precisely the wrong question to ask. -Mark Lynn Anderson, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

""Stimulating and necessary . . . Bad Film Histories makes an important theoretical intervention into early cinema history. Katherine Groo prompts us to question our assumptions—to throw away the film-historical map—and to keep moving along multiple trajectories.""—Alice Maurice, author of The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema ""With this book, Katherine Groo establishes the necessary and productive incoherence of film historical inquiry by insisting on certain structuring non-relations between artifact and historical knowledge, between ethnographic subject and scientific investigator, between film and its content, and between the world and its index. Bad Film Histories devastatingly reveals how our current film historical knowledge is entirely without basis, leaving us to wonder what today might constitute an adequate account of the cinema; the solution—as Groo brilliantly argues—is that this is precisely the wrong question to ask.""—Mark Lynn Anderson, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

"""Stimulating and necessary . . . Bad Film Histories makes an important theoretical intervention into early cinema history. Katherine Groo prompts us to question our assumptions—to throw away the film-historical map—and to keep moving along multiple trajectories.""—Alice Maurice, author of The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema ""With this book, Katherine Groo establishes the necessary and productive incoherence of film historical inquiry by insisting on certain structuring non-relations between artifact and historical knowledge, between ethnographic subject and scientific investigator, between film and its content, and between the world and its index. Bad Film Histories devastatingly reveals how our current film historical knowledge is entirely without basis, leaving us to wonder what today might constitute an adequate account of the cinema; the solution—as Groo brilliantly argues—is that this is precisely the wrong question to ask.""—Mark Lynn Anderson, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America"

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Katherine Groo is assistant professor of film and media studies at Lafayette College.

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