a journal of cities and culture
For both seasoned and novice historians, the experience of entering an archive for the first time can be incredibly overwhelming. Too much material to take in, time constrictions, obscure institutional protocols, and bewildering surprises of all kinds conspire against the …
Read More
Four years ago, the Italian National Amateur Film Archive in Bologna was able to collect audiovisual materials (film and analog videos) from Bologna’s radical political scene of the late eighties and early nineties. Among them the archivists found videos from …
Read More
How is it that moving images convey a sense of a city? This is an appropriate question for film studies at a time when cinema as a mode of viewership seems a vestigial part of twentieth century urban life. For …
Read More
Welcome to the first installment of “From the Archive,” a new recurring section highlighting archival-based scholarship and practice in urban media studies. Each post in this section invites researchers, archivists, programmers, and artists to reflect on their work …
Read More