The Moving Image
The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists

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The essential source for new thought in this rapidly expanding field.

The Moving Image is a peer-reviewed journal that  explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar.  The Moving Image deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. The journal features detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field.

Not simply a journal for archivists, The Moving Image has unique relevance for scholars who rely upon archives, both physical and electronic, for their scholarship and teaching. It is a forum for those concerned with such diverse topics as the ethics of restoration, the study of home movies and other nontheatrical forms, intellectual property restrictions affecting preservation and access to archival moving images, genre definitions, and film/videography of under-represented visual cultures. We welcome submissions on these and other film and media history topics, especially those that that illuminate the value of archives or that utilize underappreciated archival sources. 

The Moving Image is the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.

The Moving Image is published twice a year in Spring and Fall.

"This safekeeping of visual history centers on cinematic preservation and restoration and stories of various archives around the world contacted towards this end read like an international detective story." —Leonardo

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