In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology--the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of Archival sounds and images by filmmakers--provides ways to imagine the past and the future.
She shows how.
Noting how the Film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, Russell examines a range of films alongside Benjamin\'s conceptions of memory, document, excavation, and historiography.
In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology--the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of Archival sounds and images by filmmakers--provides ways to imagine the past and the future
