Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema

Considers the nature and status of contemporary cinema by way of a series of technological reflections on its past
Argues for a progressive historiography that looks forward, moving beyond the sense of anxiety and loss that has dominated accounts of cinema's postulated demiseDraws on the latest thinking on evolving screen technologies and media archaeology and the development of cognate areas such as memory studiesCharts the historical memory of cinema, with a view to considering how our eng...