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Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History

Stacks of archived footage
October 11, 2012 - 10:21 am

We arrived in Busan, Korea from Los Angeles, after more than 15 hours of travel and a 16-hour time difference, having flown for the first time in a new A380 wide-body, double-decker Airbus.

Peter Decherney’s new book, "Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet" (2012), is a groundbreaking study on what has been an understudied aspect of American film history, namely film copyright.

Stacks of archived footage
August 9, 2012 - 9:22 am

This week the British Film Institute’s magazine, Sight & Sound, released its latest “Greatest Films of All Time" poll. This poll has been conducted by the magazine every 10 years, since 1952.

One indication of the rapidly maturing field of moving image archiving has been the publication of a number of books over the past several years on the history of the field.

The Film Studies Department of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, recently invited a little more than 20 film academics, the great majority graduate students, to a symposium, “Das Nachkriegskino in Deutschland: Reflexionen des beschädigten Lebens?,” which translates as “German Post-War Cinema: Reflections of Damaged Liv

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