Film and the Archive: Nation, Heritage, Resistance

Authors

  • David M.J. Wood National Autonomous University of Mexico

Keywords:

film, archives, nation, heritage, modernity, postmodernity, Mexico

Abstract

This article analyses a range of discourses articulated around the figure of the film archive between the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries, accounting for the various possibilities that they open up for considering audiovisual heritage as a potential space either for revolutionary change or for political or textual resistance. Focused mainly on archival discourses in Mexico, the article traces their interaction with both national-historical and anti-imperialist narratives, and the implications of digital and online culture for the encounter between the archiving of film and resistance. It accounts for the position of the archive in negotiations between state and private capital and spaces of artistic autonomy, and for the relationships between the archive, modernity, postmodernity and the notion of posterity.

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Published

06-10-2010

How to Cite

Wood, D. M. (2010). Film and the Archive: Nation, Heritage, Resistance. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 6(2), 162–174. Retrieved from http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/199

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Section

Resistance in Cultural Praxis