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"Home Movie Day: Personal Archives Lost and Found"
University of Chicago
October 19, 2019
Jacqueline N. Stewart, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College.
In our digital age, we generate and share a tremendous volume of still and moving images. But how long will we have access to these proliferating, born-digital pictures of our intimate and social lives? This year's Humanities Day coincides with Home Movie Day, an international effort to preserve amateur films. What can analog personal archives, like mid-20th century home movies, teach us about how we create, and lose, cultural memory?
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"Home Movie Day: Personal Archives Lost and Found"
University of Chicago
October 19, 2019
Jacqueline N. Stewart, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College.
In our digital age, we generate and share a tremendous volume of still and moving images. But how long will we have access to these proliferating, born-digital pictures of our intimate and social lives? This year's Humanities Day coincides with Home Movie Day, an international effort to preserve amateur films. What can analog personal archives, like mid-20th century home movies, teach us about how we create, and lose, cultural memory?
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to humanities@uchicago.edu.
