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Looking Back at an Electronic exchange with a Media Archeologist. An Interview with Rick Prelinger by Caroline Martel 12 ½ years later
No full textLooking Back at an Electronic exchange with a Media Archeologist. An Interview with Rick Prelinger by Caroline Martel 12 ½ years later
No full textIt took place over a dial-up connection on a 386 computer, in the last century, a century that Rick Prelinger decrypted through his collection of films artifacts revealing “the dark side of the American Dream.” As I was writing a review of his twelve CD-rom collection Our Secret Century, focusing on how multimedia could contribute to a new historiography of cinema, I dared to ask for an interview. This led to a back-and-forth email exchange over some long winter months, from November 1998 to ..
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Afro Newspaper Archive and Prelinger Archive | Savannah Wood & Rick Prelinger (Lecture, 80 minutes)
No full textPart of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)Most of the projects we will hear about this semester take place on-site, utilizing features of the landscape. What are other digital spaces and archives that facilitate our ability to tell stories about a particular geography?This week, we have two speakers in conversation about their work based in community archives. UC Santa Cruz Professor of Film and and Digital Media Rick Prelinger will join us to present on his Lost Landscapes project, which comes out of the Prelinger film archives. In the Lost Landscapes series, Prelinger has compiled and edited footage from home movies to provide portraits of cities through the lenses of everyday people. Over the last two decades, Prelinger has presented films about San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and, Oakland.Artist and cultural organizer Savannah Wood will share her work helping to preserve the archives of the AFRO American Newspapers. Established in 1892, the AFRO is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland and the longest-running African-American family-owned newspaper in the United States. Working closely with the collection, Savannah has created projects such as To The Front: Black Women and the Vote which utilized the archives to bring DC and Maryland’s Black women suffragists into the national suffrage conversation. Savannah will also share her work in progress on a current project related to the founding of the AFRO American Newspaper Archives and the role that land played.The speakers will discuss questions around access to documentation, collaboration with communities, and the positionalities of the archivist and presenter. We will think critically about common forms of storytelling seen in commercial media, museums, and other cultural organizations
Prelinger Library
No full textPeter Delin berichtet in seinem dvdbiblog über die Bibliothek von Rick Prelinger, die Prelinger Library, die natürlich auch ein eigenes Weblog hat
Review: Archives
Get PDFAs long-term practitioners or readers of archival studies well know, there is a persistent tendency by nonarchivists to discuss “archives” as remote or overidealized Platonic sites, far removed from mundane things such as labor, sweat, or workday politics. It is gratifying to report that Archives, by Andrew Lison, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger, only half succumbs to this tendency
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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