The past is a moving picture
Subtitle: preserving the twentieth century on film
By: Janna Jones
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813041926
Subjects: Historiography; Motion pictures; Modern History; Motion pictures in historiography; Motion picture film; Preservation; Archival resources; History in motion pictures; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Archives in formation; title: 1. What to show the world; title: 2. Accessibility, authenticity, and anxiety; title: 3. Film preservation 1993: orphans and the culture wars; title: Part II. Archival techne; title: 4. The archive at the end of the century: discipline, excess, and access; title: 5. Film restoration: a new way of seeing film history.