Streaming Directly from the Cloud to Your Brain
posted July 11, 2013
In his new book, "Streaming: Movies, Media, And Instant Access," Wheeler Winston Dixon describes how digital platforms – laptops, smartphones, television monitors – have become receptors of streaming digital feeds, and asks what it all means for viewing, media consumption, and even various forms of social interaction. He says: "I was once convinced that I would never say this, but I now prefer a digital image rather than a filmic one. ... But one central question that supersedes all other concerns: is the film worth watching? ... It doesn't matter whether it's film or digital if it's utterly meretricious."
How Movies Remake the Past
posted July 5, 2013
Film and other media, suggests Steve F. Anderson, can create versions of historical accounts that take root in popular consciousness, and come to be THE historical accounts.
It’s the Reel Thing
posted June 17, 2013
The Reel Thing is the real thing, when it comes to symposiums on technical issues relating to moving-image archiving.
Wunderkino 2013: Visions of Travel and Mobility
posted June 14, 2013
It's almost time to go to Bucksport, Maine, for the annual "Wunderkino," a much-admired, multi-disciplinary gathering of devotees of moving-image history, theory, and preservation.
OK, Movie Smarty-Pants, It’s You vs. John DiLeo
posted June 9, 2013
In its just-released second edition, John DiLeo's "And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies: 200 Quizzes For Golden Age Movie Lovers" remains a challenge for any devotee of American film
More Skirmishing in the Copyright Wars
posted June 4, 2013
More on the thorny issue of copyright as it affects moving-image products.
Is What’s Mine Also Yours?
posted June 4, 2013
Is what’s mine also yours? When it comes to using film and tv clips, shouldn’t the answer be: Uh, no…?
Surprises Down Nightmare Alley
posted May 27, 2013
Sure, the film noir features wise-cracking detectives and alluring femmes fatales. It even extols these characteristics as enviable personality traits. But is that the real point of the genre? A recent book interrogates a suspect notion.
TV News Junkies, Rejoice
posted May 23, 2013
The Internet Archive, the huge array of public, online, digital libraries, is to post hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs, aided by a $1-million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
New Books on Moving Image Archiving, and Moving Images
posted May 22, 2013
Our book pages are constantly updated. We provide summaries of books, based on our own reading and also publisher's blurbs. And, we ask authors of books that likely involved searching for material in archives, and invite them to comment on their search experiences, and the state of archives relating to their work.