Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography

What is it about?

In this detailed study, Bregt Lameris looks at the relationships between film museum practices on the one hand and, on the other, discourses on the history of film. The book investigates and analyzes the history of three important collections from the archives of the EYE Film Museum: De Uitkijk and Desmet collections, and the collection of Dutch silent films. The histories of each have different connections to film historiography, which allows the investigation of these relationships from various perspectives. Lameris shows how archival films and collections always carry the historical traces of selection policies, restoration philosophies, and exhibition strategies. She argues that film museums cannot be unbiased or neutral sources of film history, and that current EYE Film Museum activities semi-atuomotically refer to this history of which the museum's archive carries the material traces.

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