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The Past Is a Moving Picture is a cultural analysis of how and why people have rescued, protected, and restored old film and how their efforts have created a massive memory bank of life in the twentieth century. Focusing on the film archives at the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Archives and UCLA Film and Television Archives, The Past Is a Moving Picture interprets the dominant film preservation practices and archiving principles of the nation's renowned film archives and analyzes how old movies and their advocates have shaped the way we see and understand film his ... More
Keywords: Archive, Film Preservation, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Memory, Cinema, Film history, Historiography
Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813041926 |
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: January 2013 | DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813041926.001.0001 |
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