Introduction: touch, click and motion: archaeologies of fashion film after digital culture. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Evans, Caroline; Parikka, Jussi
• Is Part Of: Journal of visual culture. Volume 19:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 323
• Page End: 339
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: cinema -- digital -- fashion -- film -- media archaeology; Visual sociology -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals; Arts and society -- Periodicals; Mass media and the arts -- Periodicals; Graphic arts -- Periodicals; Image (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Periodicals; Visual communication -- Periodicals; 700.5
• DOI: 10.1177/1470412920966015
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-4129

Abstract

This article functions as the introduction to the Themed Issue on Archaeologies of Fashion Film. The text introduces fashion film as a genre and as an historically dynamic form of audiovisual expression that we approach through fashion history, media archaeology and new film history. While introducing key concepts and approaches, the authors propose a form of 'parallax historiography', a term emerging from Thomas Elsaesser's work, that links different time periods from early cinema to recent digital platforms, even 'post-cinema'. The introduction makes references to the contributions in this issue that address historical conditions of emergence, marginal voices in the historical record and unexcavated archival materials; and the issue shows how they all contain feedback loops or recursive traits that resonate in contemporary practice where infrastructures of platforms and data frame the moving image.