Jiří Anger

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Jiří Anger is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Film, Queen Mary University of London. He also works at the National Film Archive in Prague as a researcher and editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Iluminace. He specializes in the theory and history of early cinema, archival film, found footage, and videographic criticism.

Anger’s texts and videos have appeared in journals such as NECSUS, Film-Philosophy, The Moving Image, [in]Transition, or Quarterly Review of Film and Video. For the article “Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Gilbert Simondon’s Transduction in Czech Archival Film,” he won the Film-Philosophy Annual Article Award 2022.

Anger is the author of the monograph Afekt, výraz, performance: Proměny melodramatického excesu v kinematografii těla (Affect, Expression, Performance: Transformation of the Melodramatic Excess in the Cinema of the Body, 2018). He is currently working on a monograph Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up (Bloomsbury, Thinking Media series), and on an edited volume on the digitization of the earliest Czech films at the National Film Archive in Prague.


Publications


Monographs

Anger, Jiří. Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). [forthcoming, Thinking Media series, eds. Bernd Herzogenrath and Patricia Pisters]

Anger, Jiří. Afekt, výraz, performance: Proměny melodramatického excesu v kinematografii těla [Affect, Expression, Performance: Transformation of Melodramatic Excess in the Cinema of the Body] (Praha: Filozofická fakulta UK, 2018).


Edited volumes

Anger, Jiří, ed. Digitální Kříženecký: Nový život prvních českých filmů [Digital Kříženecký: The New Life of the First Czech Films] (Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2023). [forthcoming]

Anger, Jiří, and Sandra Baborovská, eds. Myslet filmem / Thinking Through Film (Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 2023). [forthcoming]


Refereed articles

Anger, Jiří, and Kevin B. Lee. “Suture Goes Meta: Desktop Documentary and its Narrativization of Screen-Mediated Experience,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 40, no. 5 (2023): 595–622.

Anger, Jiří. “Do Archivists Dream of Electric Horses?: Digital Kříženecký, Static Electricity, and the Quadruple Logic of Indexicality,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema 13, no. 1 (2022): 90–111.

Anger, Jiří. “Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Gilbert Simondon’s Transduction in Czech Archival Film,” Film-Philosophy 25, no. 1 (2021): 18–41. [Film-Philosophy Annual Article Award 2022]

Anger, Jiří. “Keep That Image Burning: Digital Kříženecký, Color Veil, and the Cinema That Never Stops Ending,” The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists 20, nos. 1–2 (2020): 123–155.

Anger, Jiří. “(Un)Frozen Expressions: Melodramatic Moment, Affective Interval, and the Transformative Powers of Experimental Cinema,” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 8, no. 2 (2019): 25–47.

Anger, Jiří. “Found footage efekt: Digitální Kříženecký a prasklina filmového média [Found Footage Effect: Digital Kříženecký and the Crack-up of the Film Medium],” Iluminace 31, no. 2 (2019): 89–117.

Anger, Jiří. “Médium, které myslí sebe sama: Audiovizuální esej jako nástroj bádání a vyústění akademických trendů [Thinking Through the Medium Itself: Audiovisual Essay as a Research Method and a Result of Academic Trends],” Iluminace 30, no. 1 (2018): 5–26.

Anger, Jiří. “Co dokáže trpící tělo?: Melodramatický afekt a Smrt Marie Malibranové [What Can a Suffering Body Do?: Melodramatic Affect and The Death of Maria Malibran],” Iluminace 28, no. 1 (2016): 87–105.


Refereed articles + video essays

Hanáková, Veronika, Martin Tremčinský, and Jiří Anger. “Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives,” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 12, no. 2 (2023). [fortcoming]

Hanáková, Veronika, and Jiří Anger. “Screen Stars Dictionary: Natalia Oreiro,” Tecmerín: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales, no. 11 (2023).

Anger, Jiří, and Miroslava Papežová. “Kdo se otáčí za Slunečnicí?: Nostalgický konstrukt hvězdného obrazu Inky Zemánkové [Who’s Looking Back at the Sunflower? The Nostalgic Construction of Inka Zemánková’s Star Image],” Iluminace 34, no. 3 (2022): 25–68.

Anger, Jiří, and Veronika Hanáková. “Once Upon a Screen: The Clown, the Tree, the Shadows,” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 9, no. 3 (2022).

Anger, Jiří. “Shaping the Unshapeable?: Videographic Curation of Early Czech Cinema,” Iluminace 34, no. 1 (2022): 9–29.

Anger, Jiří, and Jiří Žák. “Distant Journey Through the Desktop,” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 8, no. 1 (2021).


Book chapters

Anger, Jiří. “První políčka českého filmu: Videografický přístup k raným kinematografickým artefaktům [The First Frames of Czech Cinema: A Videographic Approach to Early Cinematic Artifacts],” in Digitální Kříženecký: Nový život prvních českých filmů [Digital Kříženecký: The New Life of the First Czech Films] (Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2023). [forthcoming]

Anger, Jiří. “Estetika praskliny: Filmy Jana Kříženeckého na pomezí figurativna a materiálna [Aesthetics of the Crack-Up: The Films of Jan Kříženecký Between Figuration and Materiality],” in Digitální Kříženecký: Nový život prvních českých filmů [Digital Kříženecký: The New Life of the First Czech Films] (Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2023). [forthcoming]

Anger, Jiří. “Úvod: Digitální návrat k nejranějším českým snímkům [Introduction: Digital Return to the Earliest Czech Films],” in Digitální Kříženecký: Nový život prvních českých filmů [Digital Kříženecký: The New Life of the First Czech Films] (Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2023). [forthcoming]

Anger, Jiří. “Druhý život montáže v (post)digitální realitě / The Second Life of Montage in the (Post)Digital Reality,” in Myslet filmem / Thinking Through Film, eds. Jiří Anger and Sandra Baborovská (Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 2023). [forthcoming]

Anger, Jiří, and Sandra Baborovská. “Předmluva / Preface,” in Myslet filmem / Thinking Through Film, eds. Jiří Anger and Sandra Baborovská (Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 2023). [forthcoming]

Anger, Jiří. “Dotýkat se nedosažitelného objektu: Haptická audiovizuální esej a antropotechnický interface [Touching the Unattainable Object: Haptic Audiovisual Essay and the Anthropotechnical Interface],” in Operátoři (nových) médií, eds. Tomáš Dvořák and Martin Charvát (Praha: NAMU, 2022).


Journal special issues

“Interface,” Iluminace 32, no. 2 (2020), coeditor with Lucie Česálková.


Scholarly non-refereed articles

Anger, Jiří, and Tomáš Jirsa. “Nunca levamos a desconstrução suficientemente a sério (sobre afetos, formalismo, e teoria do cinema): Uma entrevista com Eugenie Brinkema,” Rebeca: Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual 12, no. 1 (2023): 1–28. [translated into Portuguese by Júlio Bezzera]

Anger, Jiří, and Veronika Hanáková. “TV Dictionary: Can Eastern European Television Speak?”, Critical Studies in Television Online, November 4, 2022: https://cstonline.net/tv-dictionary-can-eastern-european-television-speak-by-jiri-anger-and-veronika-hanakova/.

Česálková, Lucie, and Jiří Anger. “Editorial [Interface theme],” Iluminace 32, no. 2 (2020): 31–34.

Anger, Jiří. “30 Years of Iluminace,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema 11, no. 1 (2020): 113–114.

Anger, Jiří. “Nech ten obraz hořet: Found footage a horor filmové materie (Projekt disertační práce) [Keep That Image Burning: Found Footage and the Horror of Filmic Matter. PhD Dissertation Proposal],” Iluminace 31, no. 2 (2019): 151–158.

Anger, Jiří, and Tomáš Jirsa. “We Never Took Deconstruction Seriously Enough (On Affects, Formalism, and Film Theory). An Interview with Eugenie Brinkema,” Iluminace 31, no. 1 (2019): 65–85.

Pommeau, Jeanne, and Jiří Anger. “The Digitization of Jan Kříženecký’s Films,” Iluminace 31, no. 1 (2019): 104–107.

Anger, Jiří. “Stýkání a potýkání různých poloh filmové materiality [Clash Between Different Kinds of Film Materiality],” in Klauzury FAMU 2018, ed. Martin Kos (Praha: NAMU, 2019), 49–59.

Anger, Jiří. “Skrytý půvab konvencí [The Discreet Charm of Conventions],” in, Klauzury FAMU 2017, ed. Jitka Lanšperková (Praha: NAMU, 2018), 20–30.

Anger, Jiří. “Setkání afektové teorie s fenoménem beztvarosti [Affect Theory Meets the Phenomenon of Formlessness] (Tomáš Jirsa, Tváří v tvář beztvarosti. Afektivní a vizuální figury v moderní literatuře),” Iluminace 29, no. 2 (2017): 139–143.

Anger, Jiří. “Rozkladná zkušenost šílenství. Destratifikace zvuku v „anti-psychiatrických“ filmech [Disruptive Experience of Madness: Destratification of Sound in ‘Anti-psychiatry’ Films],” Slovo a smysl 26, no. 1 (2016): 89–96.

Anger Jiří. “Angažovaný dokument v době informační války [Engaged Documentary in the Times of Information War],” in Klauzury FAMU 2016, ed. Jitka Lanšperková (Praha: NAMU, 2016), 23–31.