In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for th...(展开全部)

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 mo...(展开全部)

保罗•谢奇•乌塞（Paolo Cherchi Usai），现任荷兰Haghefilm Foundation 总监，曾任澳大利亚国家视听资料馆馆长、美国乔治?伊斯曼影像博物馆电影部门高级馆员、罗彻斯特大学电影学副教授，杰弗瑞?塞茨尼克电影保护学校校长。曾与人共同创办波尔德诺默片影展及国际早期电影研究促进会（DOMITOR）；他同时是美国国家电影保护局预备成员和国际电影资料馆联盟执行委员会委员。其著作有《无声电影导论》（Silent Cinema: An Introduction , 英国电影学院出版，2000）等。

Summary An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving. The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digit...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contribu...(展开全部)

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, l...(展开全部)