Archival Film Curatorship

Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-567-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

Reihe: Framing Film

Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the National Fairground and Circus Archive in Sheffield, UK serve as exemplary sites of historical mediation between early and silent cinema and the digital age. A range of elements, from preservation protocols to technologies of display and from museum architectures to curatorial discourses in blogs, catalogs, and interviews, shape what the author innovatively theorizes as the archive’s hermeneutic dispositif. Archival Film Curatorship offers film and preservation scholars a unique take on the shifting definitions, histories, and uses of the medium of film by those tasked with preserving and presenting it to new digital-age audiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingravalle, Grazia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Theorizing Archival Film Curatorship

Chapter 1 The Eye Filmmuseum: Beyond the Canon, the Fragment and Remix

Chapter 2 The George Eastman Museum: From Trivia to Popular and Fine Art

Chapter 3 The National Fairground and Circus Archive: Early Fairground Cinema and Cine-Variety Pastiche

Conclusion Moving-Image Curatorship Beyond Film Heritage

Notes

Index

Bibliography

Filmography

Über Autor(innen)

Ingravalle, Grazia
Grazia Ingravalle is Assistant Professor in Film at Queen Mary University of London. She has published extensively on film archives, early cinema, digitization, and decolonisation in edited collections and journals including The Moving Image, Screen, and the JCMS. Archival Film Curatorship is her first monograph.