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

by Giovanna Fossati

Overview

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.  

         

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789089641397
Publisher:	Amsterdam University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2010
Series:	AUP - Framing Film Series , #1
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
 
Framing Film (in Transition): an Introduction
 
Part One
Practice and Theory of (Archival) Film
 
1  Film Practice in Transition
2  Theorizing Archival Film
 
Part Two
Theorizing (Archival) Practice
 
3  Film Archival Field in Transition
4  Restoration Case Studies: Theorizing Archival Practice
 
A New Mindset for (Archival) Film in Transition: a Conclusion
 
Notes
Glossary of Technical Terms
List of Illustrations
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Editorial 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

 “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