Publications

Bücher und DVDs, die das Österreichische Filmmuseum publiziert hat

Books

Since the 1960s, the Film Museum has been publishing books on topics related to film history. Following the first two publication series (in the 1960s and 1980s, on Robert Gardner, Jean Eustache, Humphrey Jennings, among others), two new series have been launched since 2002 in a "third wave": In collaboration with Zsolnay Verlag, the KINO series has published volumes on popular genres and important filmmakers (westerns, Edgar G. Ulmer, Orson Welles, etc.); in collaboration with SYNEMA – Society for Film and Media, richly illustrated books on contemporary filmmakers, film theorists, and film history were published between 2005 and 2025 in the FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen series. Books in the series FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen are often bilingual (German and English) or in English only. Booksellers may order all English-language titles through our international distributor Columbia University Press. Since 2022, the Film Museum has also been collaborating with the renowned art book publisher Spector Books, and since 2025 with Mandelbaum Verlag, where our joint Edition Zyphius is published. "Seeing films is a way of thinking," explained critic and curator Amos Vogel (1921–2012), and the investigations on visual practice in the series ... a way of thinking draw on his idea.
Books in our online shop


DVDs

As a founding member of the Edition Filmmuseum, the Austrian Film Museum has been producing luxuriously appointed DVDs of rare films since 2005. We consider the DVD not as a replacement medium but as an extension and appendix to the film event; the DVD serves as an educational tool in archival and curatorial work, and supplies materials which add to the understanding of film history. Institutional sales in North America are handled by Gartenberg Media Enterprises.


List of all DVDs (PDF) | DVDs in our online shop | Awards for our DVDs



Online Publications

As of 2009, sections of the Film Museum's film-related collections have gradually been made accessible online and from 2012 moving images have been added on the website (Film ONLINE). In online publications, e.g. in the film and cultural studies online magazine Nach dem Film, texts and transcripts relating to in-house programs and events are made permanently accessible. The chapter Papers provides essays, lecture transcripts, policy papers and conversations on topics that are central to the work of film museums and archives – and to the rapidly changing field of moving image culture in general.

Contact:
Tom Waibel


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