Library, archive and information management Books

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisFilm archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appropriation, and academic reinterpretation of film material that demand scholarly attention. Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive aims to fill this demand with a thought-provoking collection of original articles contributed by renowned scholars, archivists, and artists. It urges the reader to “forget” standard ways of thinking about film archives and come to grips with the challenges of analysing and recontextualising an area in transit from the analogue to the digital. The book not only throws light on unexplored issues related to film archives but also introduces unconventional approaches and alternative sources for scholarly research and a vast range of artistic possibilities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Joys of Forgetting, Reinventing and Coping with the Archive Fever (Nezih Erdo.an and Ebru Kayaalp) New Frontiers? Between Absence and Presence of Archives What Are Film Archives For? (and why we need them to change) or: Adventures in the Archive World (Ian Christie) Viewing The Ottoman Land in Early Travel Films (Peyami Çelikcan) How Social Media Platforms Replace Film Archives When There are No Archives (Serkan .avk) Intersecting Paths of Eveline T. Scott and Traugott Fuchs: How do Private Collections Speak to Us? (Nurçin .leri) The God of Small Films or What You Have Found is not What You Have Lost The Ethics of Appropriation: Found Footage between Archive and Internet (Thomas Elsaesser) The Infra-Ordinary Archive: On the Turkish 8 mm Home Movies (Ege Berensel) Interview with Gustav Deutsch: “Categorisation Limits” (Claudy Op den Kamp) Old Footage, New Meanings. The Case of The Atomic Café (Sibley Labandeira) What the Prints (don’t) Tell Preservation and Resignation: A Study on Survival (Fumiko Tsuneishi) Memory and Trust in a Time of Un-framing the Film Heritage (Nico de Klerk) “Uncontained” Archives of Cinema (Rashmi Devi Sawhney) Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn From Grain to Pixel, Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization of the medium itself, Fossati poses significant questions about the status of physical film and the practice of its archival preservation, restoration, and presentation. From Grain to Pixel attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic research by addressing the discourse on film's ontology and analyzing how different interpretations of what film is affect the role and practices of film archives. By proposing a novel theorization of film archival practice, Fossati aims to stimulate a renewed dialogue between film scholars and film archivists. Almost a decade after its first publication, this revised edition covers the latest developments in the field. Besides a new general introduction, a new conclusion, and extensive updates to each chapter, a novel theoretical framework and an additional case study have been included.Trade Review"I have used the book extensively as teaching material for master's students specialising in film archiving and curating. [...]From Grain to Pixel is a vital tool for these students to understand the characteristics of analogue film from a material, technological, institutional, and social point of view. Moreover, thanks to its editorial arrangement, this third edition provides them with a sense of the diachronic historicity of film-archival practices: updates follow directly on the relevant original text, thus highlighting the changes of the last decade and offering direct comparison between state-of-the-art practices today with those of the 2000s." - Sonia Campanini, FIAF Journal of Film Preservation, April 2021 "Ten years after its first publication, the relevance of Fossati's From Grain to Pixel remains untouched and its third revised edition is a precious opportunity to revisit her theories and test them against the passing of time in an era of frantic technological changes." - Sabrina Negri, Critical Inquiry, October 2019 "Giovanna Fossati's From Grain to Pixel has been an immensely valuable source for theories and practices of film digitization and restoration since its first publication in 2009. The new updated edition considers the changing requirements of this extremely dynamic, evolving field. Thanks to her double expertise as a film scholar and a curator, Fossati is able not only to provide deep insights into current approaches and advanced tools, but also to integrate them into her highly reflected theoretical framework thereby providing a state-of-the-art reference for research and teaching." - Barbara Flueckiger, Professor of Film Studies, University of Zurich "When From Grain to Pixel appeared it was the first motion picture study to fully engage with both archival practice and film theory, setting a high standard for the emerging area of film heritage studies. After nearly a decade, Giovanna Fossati's book still stands alone-fascinating, visionary, and provocative. Remarkably, the updates in this revised edition make it even more essential today." - Jane M. Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University - author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Early Film Industries? "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, Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago "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, Senior Curator, Moving Image Department, George Eastman MuseumTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction to the Third Revised Edition 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 Conclusions to the Third Revised Edition Notes Notes to the Third Revised Edition Glossary of Technical Terms List of Illustrations Filmography Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisArchival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the National Fairground and Circus Archive in Sheffield, UK serve as exemplary sites of historical mediation between early and silent cinema and the digital age. A range of elements, from preservation protocols to technologies of display and from museum architectures to curatorial discourses in blogs, catalogs, and interviews, shape what the author innovatively theorizes as the archive’s hermeneutic dispositif. Archival Film Curatorship offers film and preservation scholars a unique take on the shifting definitions, histories, and uses of the medium of film by those tasked with preserving and presenting it to new digital-age audiences.Trade Review“Archival Film Curatorship offers a vital contribution to moving image archiving studies. Grounded in Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and extensive, original archival research, the book simultaneously reminds us that silent films’ historicity are products of deep-rooted institutional traditions, while showing a way forward for film curation amidst the accelerating datafication of film heritage.” -- Dr. Christian Olesen, Assistant Professor Digital Media & Cultural Heritage, University of Amsterdam "Ingravalle brilliantly explores the histories of three key film archives as institutions established in the 20th century that have revised and transformed their missions in the digital era. Archival practices and archival theories are intertwined in this penetrating study of film and media histories and futures." -- Catherine Russell, Distinguished Professor of Film Studies, Concordia University, MontrealTable of ContentsIntroduction Theorizing Archival Film Curatorship Chapter 1 The Eye Filmmuseum: Beyond the Canon, the Fragment and Remix Chapter 2 The George Eastman Museum: From Trivia to Popular and Fine Art Chapter 3 The National Fairground and Circus Archive: Early Fairground Cinema and Cine-Variety Pastiche Conclusion Moving-Image Curatorship Beyond Film Heritage Notes Index Bibliography Filmography

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. The archive catalogue is presented as a critical tool for mapping image time, and the language of image description is seen as having a life, a worth and an aesthetic value of its own. Functioning at the intersection of text and image, the book combines media culture, archival techniques, and contemporary discourse on art and conceptual writing.Trade Review"Auch die Auswahl von Birkins Fallbeispielen ist durchweg überzeugend und innovativ. [...] Zahlreiche Beispiele aus der bildenden Kunst aber auch der Populärkultur (Mad Men, James Bond usw.) betten das doch recht trockene Thema der Katalogbeschriftungen in einen breiteren Kontext."- Sophie Mayr (Wien), MEDIENwissenschaft 03-04 (2021) "Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration is a substantial read. Bringing up information, theories, and references in significant density, it supplements and updates previous knowledge on both archives and its theories, hardly omitting any important detail in capturing the entire theme landscape. As such, it would be a valuable source for archivists of all kinds, but even more – it would be a great handbook for studies in the domain."- Ana Peraica, Leonardo Reviews, September 2021 "Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration offers a series of provocative snapshots that demonstrate how the seemingly clerical work of classifying images—through their formal arrangement, their archival description or their adornment with technical metadata—is an inherently productive and creative means of translating between image and text and code."- Shannon Mattern, The New School "Jane Birkin guides streams of thought through the ubiquitous archiving of post-digital culture. She unveils a liquid archive whose practices constantly remodel and reshape the malleable materials we hold over from the past, haunted by the interplay of languages, images and objects. Lucid and comprehensive, with new insights on every page, it not only reformulates again the thriving field of archive studies, but observes the currents that shape a whole, emergent cultural ecology."- Sean Cubitt, University of MelbourneTable of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The archivization of the image 2 The social archive 3 Catalogue, list, description 4 The archiving camera 5 Archival art, performativity and poetics 6 Afterword: the post-digital archive Works cited Index

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis comprehensive compendium is about managing information systems and focuses on relationships between information, information systems, people and business. The impacts, roles, risks, challenges as well as emerging trends of information systems are an important element of the book.Essential and critical information systems management skills including using information systems for competitive advantages, planning and evaluating information systems, developing and implementing information systems, and managing information systems operation form a critical part of this unique reference text.Current topics like digital platforms, agile organization, DevOPs, blockchain, 5G, data center and quantum computing prove indispensable for readers who want to stay in the forefront of today's complex information systems.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on 'The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information' (see summit.is4is.org).The book gives an up-to-date multiaspect exposition of contemporary studies in the field of information and related areas. It presents most recent achievements, ideas and opinions of leading researchers in this domain reflecting their quest for advancing information science and technology. With the goal of building a better society, in which social and technological innovations help make information key to the flourishing of humanity, we dispense with the bleak view of the dark side of information society.It is aimed at readers that conduct research into any aspect of information, information society and information technology, who develop or implement social or technological applications. It is also for those who have an interest in participating in setting the goals for the sciences of information and the social applications of technological achievements and the scientific results.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less