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Provenance and Early Cinema (Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor) Kindle Edition

by Joanne Bernardi (Editor), Paolo Cherchi Usai (Editor), Tami Williams (Editor), Format: Kindle Edition

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Remnants of early films often have a story to tell.

As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost. Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, "How did these moving images get here for me to see them?"

This volume, which features the conference proceedings from Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, 2018, questions preservation, attribution, and patterns of reuse in order to explore singular artifacts with long and circuitous lives.

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"Provenance and Early Cinema turns critical attention back to Domitor's core commitment to crossing institutional divides between university film departments and film archives/museums. This commitment has always informed the work of the organization, but it has only intermittently been an object of inquiry itself."―Kaveh Askari, author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood

"At a critical moment like this for international research, putting our artifacts back into their productive context seems to be an increasingly urgent duty. This volume has the merit of questioning the search for a new point of view, a new way to study film sources: a perspective that is more than ever necessary in the digital age, in which copying and sharing have become lightning-fast operations."―Coraline Refort, Drammaturgia

"The scope of the text is such that a researcher with a pre-existing interest in provenance will undoubtedly find both definition and inspiration here, while scholars from other areas will likely find new and novel ways by which to integrate prove- nance into the frameworks of their research."―James Lewis Shelton, Early Popular Visual Culture

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Provenance and Early Cinema turns critical attention back to Domitor's core commitment to crossing institutional divides between university film departments and film archives/museums. This commitment has always informed the work of the organization, but it has only intermittently been an object of inquiry itself.

-- Kaveh Askari

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08DLRSGPQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press; Illustrated edition (February 1, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 50.9 MB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 430 pages

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Joanne Bernardi
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I am a professor of Japanese culture and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. My research, teaching, and writing encompass the general areas of film and media, material culture, and East Asian studies. I've written on Japanese cinema and popular culture, including Japanese animation; early, silent, orphan, and "lost" film; nuclear history and the visual image; film and media history, historiography, archiving, and preservation; material culture studies, ephemera, and collecting, and digital humanities scholarship.
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Teresa Castro
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Joshua Yumibe
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Joshua Yumibe is Professor and Director of Film Studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 2012), co-author of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) with Giovanna Fossati, Tom Gunning, and Jonathon Rosen, and most recently of Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (Columbia University Press, 2019) with Sarah Street.
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