In an essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings scrutiny to bear on a range of 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 cultural phenomenon.
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"Usai's often infuriating book is a tour de force. It makes one rethink the history of film, what survives, what should be preserved, and to whom it belongs."--"Times Literary Supplement
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"[Cherchi Usai] has drawn with clinical precision (and a welcome touch of irony) the picture of a worldwide crisis that commands our unconditional concern. His portrait of a culture ignoring the loss of its own image is a devastating moral tale, the recognition that there is something very wrong with the way we are taught to disregard the art of seeing as something ephemeral and negligible."--Martin Scorsese
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Without the images of drama, adventure, comedy, natural and artificial events imprinted on motion picture film there would be no cinema; there would be nothing to make history out of; filmology would have nowhere to go. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acetate print, vinegar syndrome, nitrate print, film preservation, frame enlargement, moving image Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Without the images of drama, adventure, comedy, natural and artificial events imprinted on motion picture film there would be no cinema; there would be nothing to make history out of; filmology would have nowhere to go. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acetate print, vinegar syndrome, nitrate print, film preservation, frame enlargement, moving image Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Model Image, George Eastman House, British Film Institute New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility: The Ideas Behind The World's Slowest Computer by Stewart Brand in Front Matter
- Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein on page 94
- Ivan the Terrible (Pts. 1-3) by Sergei Eisenstein on page 26
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures by Christiane Kubrick in Front Matter
- A Clockwork Orange (Hb) by Kubrick Stanley on page 44
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- Silent Cinema, an Introduction (Distributed for the British Film Institute) by Paolo Cherchi Usai on page 72, and Back Cover
- Film Cultures by Janet Harbord on page 145, and Back Matter
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