From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition

Giovanna Fossati; Giovanna Fossati

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2018

From Grain to Pixel

The Archival Life of Film in Transition

Giovanna Fossati and Giovanna Fossati

Volume 1 in the series Framing Film

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048510696

Overview
Contents

About this book

Film is in a state of rapid change: the transition from analog to digital is profoundly affecting not just filmmaking and film distribution but a number of other facets of the industry, including the ways in which films are archived. In From Grain to Pixel—the first volume in the new Framing Filmseries from Amsterdam University Press—Giovanna Fossati brings together scholars and archivists to discuss their theories on digitization and to propose new possibilities for future archives.

Author / Editor information

Giovanna Fossati is curator at the Netherlands Film Museum in Amsterdam and a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

Reviews

“Giovanna Fossati does more than simply give the most thoughtful, thorough and up-to-date account of the transformation in motion picture archiving over the last decades. She forces us to reconsider the nature of the moving image and prepare for a new era of communication and preservation.”

— Tom Gunning, University of Chicago

“Scholarly research on film and media is profoundly influenced by the way in which moving images are preserved and made accessible for scrutiny. This fact alone should make Giovanna Fossati’s book mandatory reading for all graduate courses in the field.”

— Paolo Cherchi Usai, Haghefilm Foundation

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Framing Film (in Transition): an Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
PART 1
Practice and Theory of (Archival) Film Open Access Download PDF	31
1. Film Practice in Transition Open Access Download PDF	33
2. Theorizing Archival Film Open Access Download PDF	103
PART 2
Theorizing (Archival) Practice Open Access Download PDF	147
3. Film Archival Field in Transition Open Access Download PDF	149
4. Restoration Case Studies: Theorizing Archival Practice Open Access Download PDF	211
A New Mindset for ( Archival) Film in Transition: a Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	255
Notes Open Access Download PDF	261
Glossary of Technical Terms Open Access Download PDF	285
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	291
Filmography Open Access Download PDF	293
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	297
Index Open Access Download PDF	311

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 31 color plates, 25 halftones

eBook

Published: August 15, 2018
ISBN: 9789048510696