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The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age (Paperback, 2001 Ed.)
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The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age (Paperback, 2001 Ed.)
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Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin
Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a
half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as
many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one
hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year
2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images
to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every
film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a
trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to
save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever
increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting
their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema
already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the
solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the
industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of
aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to
bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an
indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal
to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon
of our time.
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