Week One Readings

Here's the first week of readings I've come up with for my independent reading course in film and video preservation. Wow, so much easier just having a teacher hand you a syllabus. ;-)

INDEPENDENT READINGS IN
FILM AND VIDEO PRESERVATION

Week One: Audiovisual Archives and Philosophies


National Film Preservation Foundation. The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums. San Francisco, Calif.: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2004. Chapters 1, 4 (1-6, 34-41). Available online at http://www.filmpreservation.org/preservation/film_guide.html

Edmondson, Ray. Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles. Paris: UNESCO, 1998. 1-52. Available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001364/136477e.pdf

Bottomore, Stephen. “The Sparkling Surface of the Sea of History: Notes on the Origin of Film Preservation.” This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film, ed. Roger Smither. Bruxelles : Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. BL-MAIN TR886.3 .T48 2002 [ILL]

Bigourdon, J.L. “From the Nitrate Experience to New Film Preservation Strategies.” This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film, ed. Roger Smither. Bruxelles: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. Pages 52-73.

Brownbow, Kevin. “Silent Films: What was the Right Speed?” in Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative. London: British Film Institute, 1990: 282-90. [ILL]

Elsasser, Thomas. “Innocence Restored? Reading and Rereading a “Classic”” in Minden, Michael and Bachran, Holger, eds. Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear. Camden House, 2000.

Wasko, Janet. “The Way We Were: An Historical Look at Hollywood and Technology” in Hollywood in the Information Age. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995, c1994. 7-20. BL-MAIN PN1993.5.U6 W379 1995

Mann, Sarah Ziebell. “The Evolution of American Moving Image Preservation: Defining the Preservation Landscape (1967-77).” The Moving Image I:2 (Fall 2001):1-20. BL-MAIN has 2001 volumes.

Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Current State of American Film Preservation: A Report of the Librarian of Congress. Washington, DC: National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, 1993. 4 v. BL-MAIN-GIMSS-DOCSMFIC LC 1.2:F48