Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age
Reinventing the Archive
Published on 1. October 2025
258 pages
978-1-040-78056-5 (ISBN)
Description
Film archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appropriation, and academic reinterpretation of film material that demand scholarly attention. Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive aims to fill this demand with a thought-provoking collection of original articles contributed by renowned scholars, archivists, and artists. It urges the reader to "forget" standard ways of thinking about film archives and come to grips with the challenges of analysing and recontextualising an area in transit from the analogue to the digital. The book not only throws light on unexplored issues related to film archives but also introduces unconventional approaches and alternative sources for scholarly research and a vast range of artistic possibilities.
Reviews / Votes
"The edited collection presents useful additions to scholarship on early film and film archives."Cate Cleo Alexander, University of Toronto, in Synoptique
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
10,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78056-5 (9781040780565)
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08/2023
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Persons
Nezih Erdogan has published articles and book chapters on Turkish popular cinema, and the early years of cinema in Istanbul. He is currently working at Istanbul Istinye University. His articles are published in Screen, New Cinemas, and Participations. Ebru Kayaalp is a cultural anthropologist currently working at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. Her articles are published inRegulation and Governance, Ethnologie Francaise, Social Anthropology, Health, Risk and Society and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space .
Content
Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Joys of Forgetting, Reinventing and Coping with the Archive Fever, New Frontiers? Between Absence and Presence of Archives, What Are Film Archives For? (and why we need them to change) or: Adventures in the Archive World, Viewing The Ottoman Land in Early Travel Films, How Social Media Platforms Replace Film Archives When There are No Archives , Intersecting Paths of Eveline T. Scott and Traugott Fuchs: How do Private Collections Speak to Us? , The God of Small Films or What You Have Found is not What You Have Lost, The Ethics of Appropriation: Found Footage between Archive and Internet, The Infra-Ordinary Archive: On the Turkish 8 mm Home Movies, Interview with Gustav Deutsch: Categorisation Limits, Old Footage, New Meanings. The Case of The Atomic Cafe, What the Prints (don't) Tell, Preservation and Resignation: A Study on Survival, Memory and Trust in a Time of Un-framing the Film Heritage, Uncontained Archives of Cinema, Bibliography, Index
