The archivability of television : essays on preservation and perseverance / edited by Lauren Bratslavsky and Elizabeth Peterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bratslavsky, Lauren, editor.

Peterson, Elizabeth, 1968- editor.

Series:

Peabody series in media history

The Peabody series in media history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television archives.

Motion picture film--Preservation.

Motion picture film.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This anthology critically evaluates archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material. What do we know about how television moved from ephemeral broadcasts and mounds of paperwork documenting bureaucratic and creative processes to become historical material housed in archives? This book's guiding principles are to interrogate where television as historical material "lives" and to collect the stories of some ways television preservation has been and continues to be deeply circumstantial and idiosyncratic. Bringing together work by academics, archivists, and practitioners, the book offers insights into the archival processes that confer television programs with historical value. With a focus on television's archival spaces, the book contributes more broadly to theories, histories, and practices of archiving. Likewise, the theories and questions about archives provide insights into the specificities of the medium, the relations between technologies and culture, the political economy of the culture industries, and the minutiae of television's "place" in American society"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820373881

0820373885

9780820373898

0820373893

OCLC:

1492568716