What a Moving Image Archivist Does
posted January 8, 2011
Lance Watsky, the coordinator of the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) program, is featured in an online interview about the variety of jobs available in the field. And on Friday, January 14 2001, at 4:05pm Pacific Coast Time, he will be featured on “Our Digital Future,” a radio show about libraries and archives that
Public Broadcasting Leads the Way in Preserving Digital Programming
posted January 5, 2011
Clearly, television is not what it used to be, thanks to major developments in the way moving images are recorded, edited, stored, viewed, distributed, and everything else. Tape is dead or at least put on ice; the new day is all digital. and nonprofit TV is pointing to ways ahead for moving-image archiving, although not
Public Broadcasting’s Future and Its Contributions to Broadcasting’s Future
posted January 5, 2011
The new day is all digital. Motivated by that ongoing revolution, public-broadcasting planners have undertaken a broad survey of prospects and challenges.
China’s New Documentary Movement
posted January 4, 2011
The New Documentary Movement in China emerged in the late 1980s, and has ruffled officialdom’s feathers by examining, interpreting, and intervening in social, political, and historical issues in the nation. Contributors to a new book relate the history and character of the new works, and explain that documentary films are becoming the signature mode of
The New Chinese Documentary
posted January 4, 2011
In the introduction to her earlier, 2003 book, Documentary China: The New Documentary Movement in Contemporary China, Lu Xinyu described the movement, dated to the late 1980s, as “a new way of looking at the world from the grass-roots up; a way of clearly understanding what drives different classes to survive and what feelings they