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The past is a moving picture

Jones, Janna.

The past is a moving picture preserving the twentieth century on film / [electronic resource] : Janna Jones. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Archives in formation -- 1. What to show the world -- 2. Accessibility, authenticity, and anxiety -- 3. Film preservation 1993: orphans and the culture wars -- Part II. Archival techne -- 4. The archive at the end of the century: discipline, excess, and access -- 5. Film restoration: a new way of seeing film history.

An analysis of how U.S. archivists have not only preserved the history of cinema and the history of the twentieth century, but shaped it as well.

9780813043661


Motion picture film--Preservation.
Motion pictures--Archival resources.
History in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--20th century.
History, Modern--Historiography.--20th century
Motion pictures in historiography.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.H5 / J64 2012

791.43