Death of Cinema History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age

Name: Death of Cinema History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age
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ISBN: 9780851708379

ISBN-10: 0851708374

ISBN-13: 9780851708379

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paolo Cherchi Usai, Martin Scorsese

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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 were 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 pressure from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 6/26/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English