The past is a moving picture [electronic resource] : preserving the twentieth century on film / Janna Jones.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)ISBN:- 9780813043661
- 791.43 23
- PN1995.9.H5 J64 2012
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.
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