Film Ephemera and Collections Management Selected Bibliography

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Collections Management – General

Buck, Rebecca A., and Jean Allman Gilmore. Collection Conundrums: Solving Collections Management Mysteries. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 2007.

Case, Mary. Registrars on Record: Essays on Museum Collections Management. Washington, DC: Registrars Committee of the American Association of Museums, 1988.

The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. Benchmarks in Collection Care for Museums, Archives, and Libraries: A Self-Assessment Checklist. London: Resource, 2002.

Deciding on Digital Tools for Collection Management. Wellington: National Services, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2003.

Fahy, Anne. Collections Management. London: Routledge, 1995.

Gregory, Vicki L. Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An Introduction. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2011.

Habich, Elizabeth Chamberlain. Moving Library Collections: A Management Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Hillhouse, Susanna. Collections Management: A Practical Guide. Cambridge: Collections Trust, 2009.

Johnson, Peggy. Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.

Kipp, Angela. Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.

Malaro, Marie C. A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.

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Matassa, Freda. Museum Collections Management A Handbook. London: Facet Publishing, 2011.

Oleck, Joan. Trends in Photography Special Collections Management. New York: Primary Research Group, 2011.

Powell, Brent A. Collection Care: An Illustrated Handbook for the Care and Handling of Cultural Objects. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Rinaldy, Caroline. Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management. New York: Primary Research Group, 2008.

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, Diane Vogt-O'Connor, and Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler. Photographs: Archival Care and Management. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.

Simmons, John E. Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 2006.

Museum Studies – General

Bedford, Leslie. The Art of Museum Exhibitions How Story and Imagination Create Aesthetic Experiences. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2014.

Bitgood, Stephen. Attention and Value Keys to Understanding Museum Visitors. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc, 2013.

Buck, Rebecca A., and Jean Allman Gilmore. On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 2003.

Carr, David. The Promise of Cultural Institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003.

Clark Conference, and Charles Werner Haxthausen. The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francis Clark Art Institute, 2002.

Drotner, Kirsten, and Kim Schrøder. Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Dudley, Sandra H. Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations. London: Routledge, 2010.

---. Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things. London: Routledge, 2012.

Edson, Gary. Museum Ethics. London: Routledge, 1997.

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Kreps, Christina F. Liberating Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation, and Heritage Preservation. London: Routledge, 2003.

Lord, Barry, and Gail Dexter Lord. The Manual of Museum Exhibitions. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002.

Macdonald, Sharon. A Companion to Museum Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2006.

Marstine, Janet. New Museum Theory and Practice An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.

---. Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011.

Pearce, Susan M. Museum Studies in Material Culture. London: Leicester University Press, 1989.

Putnam, James. Art and Artifact: The Museum As Medium. NY: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Rhys, Owain. Contemporary Collecting: Theory and Practice. Edinburgh, MuseumsEtc., 2014.

Sandell, Richard. Museums, Prejudice, and the Reframing of Difference. London: Routledge, 2007.

Schubert, Karsten. The Curator's Egg: The Evolution of the Museum Concept from the French Revolution to the Present Day. London: Ridinghouse, 2009.

Sherman, Daniel J. Museums and Difference. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

Talboys, Graeme K. Museum Educator's Handbook. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011.

Were, Graeme, and J. C. H. King. Extreme Collecting: Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.

Wood, Elizabeth E., and Kiersten Fourshé Latham. The Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums. 2013.

Collections Conservation

Bachmann, Konstanze. Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators. New York: Cooper- Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, 1992.

Caple, Chris. Preventive Conservation in Museums. London: Routledge, 2011.

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Corr, Susan. Caring for Collections: A Manual of Preventive Conservation. Ireland: Heritage Council, 2000.

Keene, Suzanne. Managing Conservation in Museums. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.

March, Tina S. F Is for Foam: A Look at Materials Used by the Jim Henson Company. Buffalo: State University of New York, 2000.

Saaze, Vivian van. Installation Art and the Museum Presentation and Conservation of Changing Artworks. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Display, Conservation, and Preservation of Costume Collections

Brooks, Mary M. Textiles Revealed: Object Lessons in Historic Textile and Costume Research. London: Archetype Publications, 2000.

Friedland, Nancy E. Documenting: Costume Design. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2010.

Flecker, Lara. A Practical Guide to Costume Mounting. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

Howard, Miranda. Darning the Wear of Time: Survey and Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Literature of Costume Conservation, Restoration, and Documentation Published in English, 1980-1996. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000.

Robinson, Jane, and Tuula Pardoe. An Illustrated Guide to the Care of Costume and Textile Collections. London: Museums & Galleries Commission, 2000.

Utilizing Archives and Cultural Repositories

Alexander, Ben and Jeannette A. Bastian. Communities and Their Archives: Creating and Sustaining Memory. London: Facet, 2009.

Balloffet, Nelly, Jenny Hille, and Judith A. Reed. Preservation and Conservation for Libraries and Archives. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005.

Bastian, Jeannette A. and Ben Alexander. Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory. London: Facet, 2009.

Blouin, Francis X. and William G. Rosenberg. Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.

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Burton, Antoinette M. Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

Cox, Richard J. Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

---. Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations. Duluth, MN: Litwin Books, 2008.

---, and David A. Wallace. Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2002.

Craven, Louise. What Are Archives?: Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: a Reader. Aldershot, U.K: Ashgate, 2008.

Documenting a Province: The Archives of Ontario at 100. Toronto: Archives of Ontario, 2003.

Ellis, Judith. Keeping Archives. Port Melbourne, Australia: Thorpe, 1993.

Farr, Ian. Memory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.

Forde, Helen. Preserving Archives. London: Facet, 2007.

Great Britain Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Centres for Social Change: Museums, Galleries and Archives for All. London: The Department, 2000.

Hamilton, Carolyn. Refiguring the Archive. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

Jimerson, Randall C. Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2009.

Kumbier, Alana. Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive. Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2014.

Mays, Sas. Libraries, Literatures, and Archives. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Merewether, Charles (ed.). The Archive. London: Whitechapel, 2006.

National Council on Archives. Changing the Future of Our Past. Sheffield: National Council on Archives, 2002.

Osthoff, Simone. Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archive in Contemporary Art from Repository of Documents to Art Medium. New York: Atropos Press, 2009.

Pandey, Gyanendra. Unarchived Histories: The 'Mad' and the 'Trifling' in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Posner, Ernst. Archives in the Ancient World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.

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---, and Kenneth W. Munden. Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.

Public Archives of Canada. Archives: Mirror of Canada Past. Toronto: Published for the Public Archives of Canada by University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Rossi-Snook, Elena. “Persistence of Vision: Public Library 16mm Film Collections in America.” The Moving Image 5.1 (2005): 1-27.

Gone with the Wind

Bridges, Herb. “Frankly My Dear": Gone with the Wind Memorabilia. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986.

Cameron, Judy, and Paul J. Christman. The Art of Gone with the Wind: The Making of a Legend. New York: Prentice Hall Editions, 1989.

Crank, James A. New Approaches to Gone with the Wind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.

Daly, Steve, Molly Haskell, Tina Jordan, Wesley Morris, Chris Nashawaty, and Karen Valby. Gone with the Wind: The Great American Movie 75 Years Later. New York: Life Books, 2014.

Dickey, Jennifer W. A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2014.

Harmetz, Aljean. On the Road to Tara: The Making of Gone with the Wind. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1996.

Haskell, Molly. Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

Pyron, Darden A. Recasting: "Gone with the Wind" in American Culture. Miami: University Presses of Florida, 1983.

Taylor, Helen. Scarlett's Women: Gone with the Wind and Its Female Fans. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

---. Gone with the Wind. London: British Film Institute, 2015.

Vertrees, Alan D. Selznick's Vision: Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Reel Heritage: Film Ephemera and Collections Management Selected Bibliography

Wilson, Steve. The Making of Gone with the Wind. Austin: Harry Ransom Center and University of Texas Press, 2014.

Jim Henson

Bacon, Matt. No Strings Attached: The Inside Story of Jim Hensonʼs Creature Shop. New York: Macmillan, 1997.

Dale, Timothy M, and Joseph J. Foy. Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Garlen, Jennifer C., and Anissa M. Graham. Kermit Culture: Critical Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets. Jefferson, Car. du N: McFarland & Company, 2009.

Falk, Karen. Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2012.

Finch, Christopher. Jim Henson: The Works: the Art, the Magic, the Imagination. New York: Random House, 1993.

Froud, Brian, and J.J. Llewellyn. The World of the Dark Crystal. New York: Jim Henson Co., 2003.

Henson, Jim, and Cheryl Henson. It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider. New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Inches, Alison, and Jim Henson. Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles: A Muppet Sketchbook. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2001.

Jim Henson's World of Television: A Guide to the Jim Henson Collection at the Museum of Television & Radio. New York, NY: Museum of Television & Radio, 1993.

Jones, Brian J. Jim Henson: The Biography. New York: Ballantine Books, 2013

David Cronenberg

Beard, William. The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Browning, Mark. David Cronenberg: Author or Film-Maker? Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007.

Cronenberg, David. Chromosomes: A Project. Torino, Italy: Volumina, 2008.

---. The Strange Objects of David Cronenberg's Desire: An Exhibition of Drawings, Objects and Creatures from the Films of David Cronenberg. Tokyo: Seibu Department Stores Ltd., 1993.

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---. Red Cars. Torino, Italy: Volumina, 2005.

---, and Serge Grünberg. David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grünberg. Translated by Claudine Paquot. London: Plexus, 2006.

---, and Chris Rodley. Cronenberg on Cronenberg. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.

Dompierre, Louise. Prent/Cronenberg: Crime Against Nature. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987.

Grant, Michael. The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

Handling, Piers. The Shape of Rage: The Films of David Cronenberg. Toronto: General Pub. Co., 1983.

Mathijs, Ernest. The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.

Rodley, Chris. Cronenberg on Cronenberg. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.

Wilson, Scott. The Politics of Insects: David Cronenberg's Cinema of Confrontation. New York: Continuum, 2011.

The Origins of Film Archives

“A National Film Museum.” The Bioscope (May 26, 1910): 4.

Bland, R. Henderson. “The Need of a National Repository for Films.” Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly (April 17, 1913): 2489-2491.

Bottomore, Stephen. “'A Fallen Star': Problems and Practices in Early Film Preservation.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 185-190.

Brown, H. G. “Problems of Storing Film for Archive Purposes.” British Kinematography 20.5 (May 1952).

“Historic Films – The Difficulty of Preservation.” The London Times (November 26, 1916): np.

Matuszewski, Boleslaw. “Une Nouvelle source de l’histoire (1898).” Cultures 2.1 (1974): 219-222.

Film Preservation (History and Theory)

Reel Heritage: Film Ephemera and Collections Management Selected Bibliography

Bottomore, Stephen. “The Sparking Surface of the Sea of History: Notes on the Origins of Film Preservation.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 86-97.

Bowser, Eileen and Ronald S. Magliozzi. “Film Archiving as a Profession: An Interview with Eileen Bowser.” The Moving Image 3.1 (Spring 2003): 132-146.

Brown, Harold. “Trying to Save Frames.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 98-102.

Callahan, Vicki. Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.

Campagnoni, Donata Presenti. “The Preservation, Care, and Exploitation of Documentation Related to the Cinema: an Unresolved Issue.” Film History 18.3 (2006): 306-318.

Carey, Gary. Lost Films. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

Cherchi Usai, Paolo. The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age. London: British Film Institute, 2001.

Decherney, Peter. Imagining the Archive: Film Collecting in America Before MoMA. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Enticknap, Leo Douglas Graham. Film Restoration: The Culture and Science of Audiovisual Heritage. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.

Frick, Caroline. Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Head, Anne. A True Love for Cinema: Jacques Ledoux, Curator of the Royal Film Archive and Film Museum of Belgium, 1948-1988. The Hague, Netherlands: Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1988.

Houston, Penelope. Keepers of the Frame: The Film Archives. London: British Film Institute, 1994.

Jones, Janna. The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.

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Kula, Sam. “Up from the Permafrost: The Dawson City Collection.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 213-218.

Madden, Paul. Keeping Television Alive: The Television Work of the National Film Archive. London: British Film Institute, 1981.

McGreevey, Tom, and Joanne L. Yeck. Our Movie Heritage. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Noordegraaf, Julia, Cosetta G. Saba, Maître B. Le, and Vinzenz Hediger (eds). Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Pierce, David. “The Legion of the Condemned – Why American Silent Films Perished.” in This Film Is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Roger Smither and Catherine A. Surowiec (eds). Brussels: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), 2002. 144-162.

---. The Survival of American Silent Feature Films, 1912-1929. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and The Library of Congress, 2013.

Shepard, David and Kyle Westphal. “Forty Years of Film Preservation: A Conversation with David Shepard.”Northwest Chicago Film Society (January 30, 2012). Accessed August 30, 2012. http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/2012/01/30/forty-years-of-film-preservation-a- conversation-with-david-shepard/

Sitton, Robert. Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Slide, Anthony. Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 1992.

Smith, Paul. The Historian and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Thompson, Frank T. Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1996.

Torlasco, Domietta. The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Wasson, Haidee. Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

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Waldman, Harry. Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

Film Preservation (Practice)

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. “Pandora’s Digital Box: Pix and Pixels.” Observations on Film Art (February 13, 2012). Accessed December 15, 2014. http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2012/02/13/pandoras-digital-box-pix-and-pixels/

Bowser, Eileen, and John Kuiper. A Handbook for Film Archives: Based on the Experiences of a Member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Brussels: FIAF Secretariat, 1980.

Cherchi Usai, Paolo. “The Conservation of Moving Images.” Studies in Conservation 55 (2010): 250-257.

---. “Film as an Art Object.” in Preserve then Show. Dan Nissen, Lisbeth Richter Larson, Thomas C. Christensen and Jesper Stub Johnsen (eds). Copenhagen: Danish Film Institute, 2002. 22-38.

Fossati, Giovanna. From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2009.

Gracy, Karen F. Film Preservation: Competing Definitions of Value, Use, and Practice. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2007.

Little, Diana. “Digitizing Giant Trees of California, a 22mm Edison Home Kinetoscope Film.” Archival Products Newsletter 19.3 (2015). Accessed April 19, 2015. http://www.archival.com/newsletters/apnewsvol19no3.pdf

Parth, Kerstin (ed.). Work/s in Progress: Digital Film Restoration Within Archives. Vienna: Synema, 2013.

Read, Paul and M.P. Meyer. Restoration of Motion Picture Film. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2000.

Film Ephemera related Exhibition Catalogues

Burton, Tim, Ronald S. Magliozzi, and Jenny He. Tim Burton. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

Cronenberg, David. The Strange Objects of David Cronenberg's Desire: An Exhibition of Drawings, Objects and Creatures from the Films of David Cronenberg. Tokyo: Seibu Department Stores Ltd., 1993.

Handling, Piers, and Noah Cowan. David Cronenberg: Evolution. Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival, 2013.

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Kubrick, Stanley and Deutsches Filmmuseum. Stanley Kubrick. Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 2004.

Magliozzi, Ronald S., Jenny He, and Jesse Wente. Tim Burton. Toronto, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival, 2010.

Makeieff, Macha, and Stéphane Goudet. Jacques Tati Deux Temps Trois Mouvements. Paris: Naive, 2009.

Orléan, Matthieu, Serge Toubiana, Frédéric Strauss, and Bernard Bénoliel. [¡ Almodovar : Exhibition !]: [exposition]. Paris: Editions du Panama, 2006.

Wilson, Steve. The Making of Gone with the Wind. Austin: Harry Ransom Center and University of Texas Press, 2014.