Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: celluloid specters, digital anachronisms / Paul Flaig and Katherine Groo
  • Alice in the archives / Katherine Groo
  • Eternally early / Brian Price
  • "Historicity begins with decay and ends with the pretense of immortality"/ an interview with Paolo Cherchi Usai
  • Paris 1900: archiveology and the compilation film / Catherine Russell
  • After life, early cinema: remaking the past with Hirokazu Kore-eda / Jonah Corne
  • Playback, play-forward: Anna May Wong in Double exposure / Yiman Wang, University of California
  • The Living nickelodeon and silent film sound today / an interview with Professor Rick Altman
  • Intertext as archive: Méliès, Hugo, and new silent cinema / Constance Balides
  • Cross-medial afterlives: the film archive in contemporary fiction / Joshua Yumibe
  • Supposing that the archive is a woman / Paul Flaig
  • The life cycle of an analog medium: Tacita Dean's film / Jennifer Lynn Peterson
  • From silence to Babel: Farocki's image infoscape / Brianne Cohen
  • Found memories of film history: industry in a post-industrial world, cinema in a post-filmic age / Brian R. Jacobson
  • A YouTube bestiary: twenty-six theses on a post-cinema of animal attractions / James Leo Cahill
  • Laughter in an ungoverned sphere: actuality humor in early cinema and web 2.0 / Rob King
  • "The biggest Kuleshov experiment ever"/ a conversation with Guy Maddin about Séances.