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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827261603321

Autore

Jones Janna

Titolo

The past is a moving picture : preserving the twentieth century on film / / Janna Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012

ISBN

0-8130-4390-5

0-8130-4366-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

791.43

909.82072

Soggetti

Motion pictures in historiography

History, Modern - 20th century - Historiography

Motion pictures - History - 20th century

History in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Archival resources

Motion picture film - Preservation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.