Flow Journal, Special Issue: The Archive is Now Online
Sat, 22 May 2010 18:18:54 -0500
Greetings,
We want to let you know that the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum
on Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.
This issue features columns from: Lisa Patti, Abigail Lambke, Shannon
Mattern, Pauline Stakelon, Shayne Pepper, Alexandra Juhasz, Kimberly
Springer, Mel Hogan and Pamela Ingelton.
This issue's columns in brief:
"Huckster, Huckster: The Archival Brando" by Lisa Patti
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4999)
A discussion of the restoration, for commercial ends, of the classical
Brando as the dominant image of the once-fallen star in contemporary
culture.
"A Walter Ong Artifact Travels Through Media, Time, and Meaning" by
Abigail Lambke (http://flowtv.org/?p=4993)
Moving through oral and written, artifact and archive at the Walter J.
Ong archive at Saint Louis University.
"Infernal Archive: Medial States of Matter in the Netherlands Institue
for Sound and Vision" by Shannon Mattern (http://flowtv.org/?p=4992)
Examining the place of the archive at the Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision
"A Case for Imperfection: Confessions of a Digital Restoration Artist"
by Pauline Stakelon (http://flowtv.org/?p=5000)
A digital archivist grapples with the dilemma of handling
technological artifacts evident in the kinescope recordings of The
Goldbergs.
"Beyond Netflix and TiVo: Rethinking HBO Through the Archive" by
Shayne Pepper (http://flowtv.org/?p=4994)
In order to properly study HBO, we need to visit the archive to make
sense of its early original programming lineup.
"The Views of the Feminist Archive" by Alexandra Juhasz
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4996)
The video collection from the Los Angeles Woman's Building offers a
glimpse into a feminist archive in process.
"What're Youse Lookin' at, Meathead?: Locating Archie Bunker Across
Archives" by Kimberly Springer (http://flowtv.org/?p=4995)
Kimberly Springer looks at how America?s ?most lovable bigot?, Archie
Bunker, lives through the archives.
"Catching and Crashing the Mediatheque" by Mel Hogan
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4998)
Mel Hogan investigates the politics of archiving video art.
"Mechanisms for Non-Elite Voices: Mass-Observation and Twitter" by
Pamela Ingleton (http://flowtv.org/?p=4997)
A look at Twitter?s placement in the Library of Congress within
historical perspective.
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Flow Editorial Staff
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