7 records matched your query       

Author:

Jones, Janna.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiv, 194 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

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

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.

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.

ISBN:

0813041929 (alk. paper)
9780813041926 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)782994095

LCCN:

2012009835

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)