Archives and Moving Images: Converging Fields in Theory and Practice

Archives and Moving Images: Converging Fields in Theory and Practice **MA Course Film Studies 7,5 ECTS**

Course Code: FL2240,** VT2025**

Literature** **

Additional texts might be added.

Acker, Amelia (2021), ‘Metadata’, in Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data, (eds.) Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, et al., Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 321–329.

Agostinho, Daniela (2019), ‘Archival encounters: rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives’, Archival Science, Vol. 19, pp. 141–165.

Amad, Paula (2010), Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planéte, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 1–24 and 45–225.

Blouin, Francis X. and Rosenberg, William G. (2011), ‘The Archivist as Activist in the Production of (Historical) Knowledge”, in Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives, (eds.) Blouin, F. X. and W. G. Rosenberg, New York, pp. 140–160.

Brunow, Dagmar (2015), ‘Reworking the Archive’ and ‘Remediation: Reappropriations in Digital Media and in the Essay Film’, in Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention, Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 100–193.

- and Anna Linder (2020), ‘Curating (Queer) Film Archives and Creating Online Communities in Times of the Pandemic: The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images’, in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, (6p.)

Cook, Sarah (2017) ‘Shrouded History: The Canadian Film and Photo Unit, Records Creation, Reuse, and the Recontextualizing of “Lost” Audiovisual Heritage’, Archivaria. Pp. 125–148.

Elsaesser, Thomas (2009), ‘Archives and Archaeologies: The Place of Non-Fiction Film in Contemporary Media’ in Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media

(eds.) V Hediger and P Vonderau, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 19–34.

Ernst, Wolfgang (2013 [2009]), ‘Underway to the Dual System: Classical Archives and Digital Memory’, chapter in Digital Memory and the Archive, W. Ernst and Jussi Parikka (eds.), pp. 81–94.

Florin Persson, Erik (2017), ‘Useful cinema and the dynamic film history beyond the national archive: Locating municipally sponsored Swedish city films in local archives’, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.121–132.

Flueckiger, Barbara (2017), ‘A Digital Humanities Approach to Film Colors”, The Moving Image, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 71–94.

Fossati, Giovanna (2018), ‘Theorizing Archival Film’ and ‘Film Archival Field in Transition’, chapters in From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition, Amsterdam, pp. 145–269.

- and Annie van den Oever (2020), ‘The Twenty-First-Century Post-cinematic Ecology of the Film Museum: Theorizing a Film Archival Practice in Transition – A Dialogue’, in Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era (eds.) Dominique Chateau and José Moure, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Johansson, Karl-Magnus (2018), ‘Inscription: An Expanded Editor’s Note’, in Inscription, Göteborg, pp. 3–25, pp. 56–75.

– (2019), ‘Vagrant Facts: The Use of Archives as Cultural Heritage and Knowledge Production’, Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, Vol. 37 No. 1.

Monizza, Simona (2017), ‘The Short Film Pool Project: Saving Short Films from Oblivion in the Digital Era’, *The Moving Image*: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Vol. 17, No. 2, s. 129–135.

Palacios, José Miguel (2022), ‘Exile, Archives, and Transnational Film History: The Returns of Chilean Exile Cinema’, in *The Moving Image*: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Vol 22, No. 2, pp. 29-58.

Prelinger, Rick ((2019), ‘Archives of Inconvenience’, in Archives (eds.) Andrew Lison et al. Lüneburg: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1–45.

Rao, Nina (2010), ‘Representation and Ethics in Moving Image Archives’, The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, No. 2, pp. 104–123.

Tarr, Kimberly and Wendy Shay (2013), ‘How Film (and Video) Found Its Way into “Our Nation's Attic”: A Conversation about the Origins of Audiovisual Collecting and Archiving at the Smithsonian Institution’, The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 178–184.

Vonderau, Patrick and Rick Prelinger (2009), ‘Vernacular Archiving: An Interview with Rick Prelinger’ in Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media (eds.) V. Hediger and P. Vonderau, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 51–61.