1) The collection of essays aims not only to fill a largely neglected area in studies of new film history but also to bring a fresh perspective by challenging the standard approaches to archives. The discussion of film archives in the book ranges from conventional topics like the collection, preservation, and sharing of films to new questions such as copyright issues, artistic practices, and lost and imagined films. 2) The book introduces a multi-disciplinary perspective that challenges one-sided approaches to film archives. By bringing together film scholars, filmmakers, and archivists, it is a collaborative effort to seek out new frontiers and build effective dialogue about archival practices. 3) Lastly, the book's uniqueness lies in its divergence from previous studies in adopting a non-Eurocentric approach. The experiences and practices of non-Western scholars in film archives are a major focus of various chapters. 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.
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"The edited collection presents useful additions to scholarship on early film and film archives."
Cate Cleo Alexander, University of Toronto, in Synoptique
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 Café, 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
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 Française, Social Anthropology, Health, Risk and Society and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space .
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