Tuesdays, 6-10 PM, room 651, Fall 2005
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Nov 15
Access, Currating, & Programming (HB)
see entire
syllabus
Note: In Case of a strike, the
class will meet in Building #3 of Washington Square Village #13F.
The Washington Square Village complex is immediately across W 3rd St
from the back of Bobst Library. Building #3 is on the Bleecker
Street side of the complex.
Assignments due before class:
- Look over the website of MIC-Moving
Image Collections, and prepare questions and comments for our
guest, Jane Johnson
- Read:
- Each student should read one article from The Moving
Image
4:1, Spring 2004, pages 1-88, and be prepared to present a short (5
min) summary to the rest of the class
- Atkinson, Jane. AGCS
Occupational Profile: Programme Researcher: Broadcasting/film/video
- At least 3 of the papers from the March 2003 Toronto
Conference Terms
of Address: The Pedagogy and Politics of Film and Video Programming and
Curating
- In Focus: a guide to using films / by Linda Blakaby,
Dan
Georgakas and Barbara Margolis. NY: Cine Information, 1980.
- American Film Distribution: the changing marketplace
/ by
Suzanne Mary Donahue. MI: UMI Research Press, 1987
- Noriega, Chon A. "On curating," Wide Angle Vol XVII
nr 1-4
(1995); p 292-304
- Gilmore, Geoff. "Sundance's agenda," Scenario Vol II
nr 3
(Fall 1996); p 4-5
- Peary, Gerald. "Season of the hunt; On the practice
of film
festival programming," American Film Vol XVI nr 10 (Nov-Dec 1991); p 20
- PaÔni, Dominique. "Comme dans un musee" Journal
of
Film Preservation no 53 (Nov 1996); p 8-11 (Argues that programming in
archives should be directed at building collections. Explores current
explosion in film restorations within the context of archival
programming.)
- MacDonald, Scott. "Avant-garde at the Flaherty," Wide
Angle
Vol XVII nr 1-4 (1995); p 256-267
- Besser, Howard (1998). The Shape of the 21st
Century
Library, in Milton Wolf et. al. (eds.), Information
Imagineering: Meeting at the Interface , Chicago: American Library
Association, pages 133-146
- Moving Image Collections (MIC) General
Information
- Schiller, Daniel. (1988) "How to think about
information."
In. V. Mosco and J. Wasko (eds.), The Political Economy of Information
(pp. 27-43). Madison, WI : University of Wisonsin Press. 1988
- Lievrouw, L.A. (1994) "Information Resources and
Democracy:
Understanding the Paradox." Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, 45(6), July, pp. 350-357
- AMIA Compendium of Moving Image Cataloging
Practice,
edited by Abigail Leab Martin and compiled by Jane D. Johnson, Linda
Tadic, Linda Elkins, Christine Lee, and Amy Wood. Society of American
Archivists & AMIA, 2001. ca. 275 pp.
- Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging
Manual
(AMIM2) . 2nd ed. revised by the AMIM Revision Committee, Motion
Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000. 1 v. ISBN
0-8444-1008-X
- Harrison, Harriet W. (comp. and ed.), for the
Cataloging
Commission of the International Federation of Film Archives
(FIAF). The FIAF Cataloging Rules for Film Archives.
Film-Television-Sound Archive Series: Volume 1. München;
London; New York; Paris: K.G. Saur, 1991
Topics Covered:
- Presenting and contextualizing historical material
- Programming a series
- Repurposing
- Issues of access
- Obtaining moving image materials:
- How does one find moving image collections? (Moving Image
Gateway Project)
- What are sources for clips? For ancillary materials?
- What do you need to do research? General reference and
resources (Pam Bloom?)
- Types of resources (biographical, film indexes, union
catalogs, almanacs, periodical indexes, trades, dictionaries,
encyclopedias, review compilations)
- What are issues for historical research and reconstruction?
- How are moving images and sound part of the larger visual
culture and ways of looking and seeing? How does our understanding of
visual culture impact our role in moving image archiving and
preservation?
- Discussion of Library workshop earlier in the semester
Agenda: