The Archivability of Television by Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizab... - 9780820373898

The Archivability of TelevisionEssays on Preservation and Perseverance\nAuthor(s): Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth Peterson, Caroline Frick, Kate Cronin, Owen Gottlieb, Ruta Abolins, Hannah Spaulding, Walter Podrazik, Lynne Carmichael, Eric Hoyt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820373898, 978-0820373898\nSynopsis\nThis anthology critically evaluates archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material. \n\nWhat 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 books guiding principles are to interrogate where television as historical material lives and to collect the stories of some ways television preservation has been and continue.