Restitution and the moving image global film heritage between return, access, and archival reparation / edited by Nikolaus Perneczky and Cecilia Valenti.
| Other author | Perneczky, Nikolaus |
| Other author | Valenti, Cecilia, 1984 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Film culture in transition |
| Contents | Film/restitution : contesting displacement, enclosure, and uneven relations of care in global audiovisual archiving / Nikolaus Perneczky and Cecilia Valenti -- Footage lost and found : a roundtable on Africa's displaced and silenced film heritage / Ali Essafi, Nii-Kwate Owoo, Jihan El-Tahri, and Jean-Marie Téno in conversation with Nikolaus Perneczky -- Six scenes of (dis)engagement : creating friction in the Italian fascist and colonial archives / Alessandra Ferrini -- Decolonizing the colonial film archive : access to Ghana's shared cinematic heritage / Rebecca Ohene-Asah -- Scenes from the archive / Onyeka Igwe -- Burning to give access : mapping, repatriating, and sustaining audiovisual archives of the South African liberation struggle through the visual history explorer / Janneke van Dalen -- Reactivating ethnographic image collections : toward a decolonial archivology / Petra Löffler -- A view from the North : a conversation on global audiovisual archiving, shared heritage, and archival cooperation / Giovanna Fossati, Nikolaus Perneczky, and Cecilia Valenti -- Restoring Ray : on the geo-cultural politics of "saving cinema" / Amrita Biswas -- Caring for Indigenous audiovisual heritage in Australia : on shared archival authority, culturally appropriate protocols, and digital returns / Tasha James -- Institutional memory and archival returns : history of a negotiated transport of films from the BFI to the National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago / Xavier Alexandre Pillai -- African cinema returns : tracing Guinean film heritage in Eastern European archives / Gabrielle Chomentowski -- Questioning return : a conversation on decolonial approaches toward restitution, repair, and care in authoritarian (post)colonial and imperial film heritage and cinema cultures / Ali Hussein Al-Adawy and Brigitta Kuster -- Films that don't exist do exist : restituting a missing cinema / Léa Morin -- Restoration, restitution, and potential history : a dialogue with Abdoul War on Med Hondo's archive / Annabelle Aventurin -- Noli me tangere : contextualizing moving image restitution in the community-based archival practice of Forum Lenteng and Otty Widasari / Luthfan Nur Rochman -- To oralize or to digitize? re-membering Nigeria's contested archives / Didi Cheeka. |
| Abstract | "As global demands grow for the restitution of looted artifacts from Western museums and ethnological collections, what about the displaced and sequestered moving-image heritage of the Global Majority? This book examines restitutive practices in audiovisual archives worldwide, addressing pressing practical questions with immediate policy implications. It explores legal frameworks, codes of conduct, and institutional governance while offering a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to film and heritage studies. If calls for restitution challenge traditional film archival practices, film itself-used as an archival medium-complicates conventional notions of restitution. Moving beyond a limited view of restitution as simply "giving back," the contributors to this volume envision a broader, decolonial horizon. They reassert historical demands for decolonial worldmaking that remain unfulfilled, proposing new political and ethical relationships between the unequal stakeholders of global film heritage. This book is an essential resource for scholars in film and media history, feminist and decolonial theory, critical geography, and archival studies, as well as for curators, archivists, cultural practitioners, and general readers. It offers a vital perspective for anyone engaged in the ongoing work of decolonizing audiovisual archives"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2026006695 |
| ISBN | 9789048558087 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781041184393 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |