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by Martin Scorsese (Foreword), Paolo Cherchi Usai (Author) "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..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: BFI Publishing; illustrated edition edition (1 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0851708374
  • ISBN-13: 978-0851708379
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 1 cm
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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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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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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
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