Celebrating the Archives Reading List

The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive

By Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic

How archivists work with and against production industries to preserve the moving image.

Reclaiming Modernity: Essays on a Paradoxical Nostalgia

By Larry Bennett

The anti-nostalgia of the past versus the nostalgia of the present.

Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars

By Viviana Beatriz MacManus

Gender-based violence and historical memory in Mexico and Argentina.

Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives

By Elena Tajima Creef

Reconsidering the use of images in histories of Asian American women.

Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources

Edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry
Foreword by Antoinette Burton

Reconstructing the lives of women lost to historical record.


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