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Digital image archives pose a complex set of technical, legal, ethical and methodological challenges, particularly for film and media studies and adjacent fields. This volume draws a detailed map of these challenges and offers perspectives for further research and creative practice.

Who Owns the Images?

Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a complex set of technical, legal, ethical and methodological challenges, particularly for film and media studies and adjacent fields. In a series of studies and interviews with practitioners, scholars and theorists, this volume draws a detailed map of these challenges and offers perspectives for further research and creative practice.

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2021
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English
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143
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The Authors

Ania Szczepanska is a graduate of the École normale, film historian and Lecturer et Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her works deal with Eastern European Film and Documentary Film. She made the documentary Nous filmons le peuple! (We Film the People!), produced by Abacaris films (broadcast on Ciné+ and TVP Kultura, released on DVD by Aloest), about the political involvement of filmmakers in Communist Poland. She is the author of: Do granic negocjacji. Historia Zespołu filmowego X Andrzeja Wajdy (1972-1983) (Cracow: Universitas, 2017 [At the border of Negotiation. History of the Andrzej Wajda’s Production Group X (1972-1983)]). In 2019 she made the film Solidarnosc, la chute du mur commence en Pologne (Solidarnosc, how Solidarity changed Europe) produced by Looksfilm for Arte/NDR.

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Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and member of the Institut universitaire of France. She is the author and co-editor of fifteen books exploring the connections between film, memory and history amongst which are: Clio de 5 à 7 (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000); Nuit et brouillard: un film dans l’Histoire (Odile Jacob, 2007) [Night and Fog: A Film in History. Tr. Tom Mes (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014); La Voie des images (Verdier, 2013); Les Écrans de l’ombre (Paris: Seuil, 2014); her most recent work is: Le Moment Eichmann (Albin Michel, 2016), coedited with Annette Wieviorka.

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