{"product_id":"the-archivability-of-television-essays-on-preservation-and-perseverance-9780820373881","title":"The Archivability of Television: Essays on Preservation and Perseverance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis anthology critically evaluates archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat do we know about how television moved from ephemeral broadcasts and mounds of paperwork documenting bureaucratic and creative processes to become historical material housed in archives? This book's guiding principles are to interrogate where television as historical material \"lives\" and to collect the stories of some ways television preservation has been and continues to be deeply circumstantial and idiosyncratic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together work by academics, archivists, and practitioners, the book offers insights into the archival processes that confer television programs with historical value. With a focus on television's archival spaces, the book contributes more broadly to theories, histories, and practices of archiving. Likewise, the theories and questions about archives provide insights into the specificities of the medium, the relations between technologies and culture, the political economy of the culture industries, and the minutiae of television's \"place\" in American society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Bratslavsky (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LAUREN BRATSLAVSKY is an Associate Professor at Illinois State University's School of Communication. Her research related to mass media and archives is published in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism, The Moving Image\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFilm \u0026amp; History, \u003c\/i\u003eand in the inaugural issue of \u003ci\u003eJournal of 20th Century Media History\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also involved with the Library of Congress's Radio Preservation Task Force. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Peterson (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH PETERSON is a Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Oregon. She has published articles in \u003ci\u003eThe Moving Image, Film History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOregon Historical Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIluminace. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the author of \u003ci\u003eTribal Libraries in the United States: A Directory of American Indian and Alaska Native Facilities\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475131826450,"sku":"9780820373881","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aec02ef4-3e15-477d-9aaf-e5ca6fcf337b.jpg?v=1752588004","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-archivability-of-television-essays-on-preservation-and-perseverance-9780820373881","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}