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The past is a moving picture : preserving the twentieth century on film / Janna Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Janna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures in historiography.
- History, Modern--20th century--Historiography.
- History, Modern.
- Motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- History in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Archival resources.
- Motion picture film--Preservation.
- Motion picture film.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4390-5
- 0-8130-4366-2
- OCLC:
- 806033028
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