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Paper tensions: from flipbooks to scanners - the role of paper in moving image practices

  • Amanda Egbe
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Abstract

Concerning the materiality of reproduction and duplication in film, this chapter explores the overlap of moving image and paper technologies to examine aspects of film archiving. It presents an assemblage of paper-related moving image artefacts: paper prints, posters, flipbooks, optical printers, scanners, pre-cinematic, early and digital cinema technologies, to explore what we can understand about the moving image when viewed outside of the cinematic apparatus of screen and auditorium. By considering the moving image and its history in this way as overlapping mediums, we broaden our understanding of moving image technology in its material and immaterial aspects, exploring how subjects and technologies interact to produce what is permissible as film documents. Beginning with Elsaesser’s assertion that there is a need for a new mapping of the moving image in the wake of early cinema research to understand audiovisual media technologies better. This chapter utilises media archaeology and cultural techniques to explore the connections between print media, duplicating film and digital scanners, concluding that practices of archival film production and techniques of archival scanner operators in the process of duplication are dynamically co-created through spaces of exchange.

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Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Chapter
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Host publication Subtitle

Creative Practice in Context

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 186-198 (13 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 20/09/2023

Publication status

Published - 20/09/2023

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9780367206017

ISBN (Electronic)

9780429262487

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626117
  • Scopus: 85174469684

Host publication title

The Materiality of the Archive

Host publication editors

  • Sue Breakell
  • Wendy Russell

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