From the Editor
Paolo Cherchi Usai
The NFSA Journal is the expression of our commitment to develop a dynamic discussion of recorded sound and moving image culture between the National Film and Sound Archive and the public.
We will do so without any concession to nostalgia, technical jargon, or theoretical elitism. Our aim is to make the work of the NFSA - acquiring, preserving and presenting moving images and sound recordings - accessible to a wider audience. We will be open to all kinds of scholarly and intellectual perspectives, as long as their underlying ideas are expressed clearly and in good faith.
The four collections of the NFSA (Documents and Artefacts, Indigenous, Moving Image, Recorded Sound), as well as the philosophical rationale behind its activities, will be our main areas of concern, and the NFSA curatorial team will be directly engaged in the developments of the journal. However, we will be open to other contributions from colleagues, students and practitioners in the field... CONTINUED
The NFSA Journal is published quarterly in print, and is available online as a PDF immediately after the publication of the next edition.
If you would like to subscribe, or receive a printed copy of any issue please contact us at journal@nfsa.gov.au
Editorial Panel
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Volume 2, No.3, 2007
Blue Movies in Australia: A Preliminary History, by Jill Julius Matthews
Jill Julius Matthews’ paper sketches the outline history of adult cinema, and makes the case for the importance of its inclusion within film and cultural history, and in the collecting policies of the National Film and Sound Archive. “It can only be a sketch at this stage,” says Matthews, “reliant on vignettes and extrapolation, because the dominance of the classic paradigm has until recently dissuaded scholars from broader research and obliterated much of the evidence.”
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Volume 2, No.2, 2007
The Corrick Collection: A Case Study in Asia–Pacific Itinerant Film Exhibition (1901–1914), by Leslie Anne Lewis
This collection held at the NFSA comprises approximately 135 early films shown by the Corrick Family Entertainers, a vaudeville-style musical troupe, during their international tours from 1901 to 1914. Dr Lewis's paper reveals a rich archival treasure which will inform a number of areas within the histories of both film and film archives.
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Volume 2, No.1, 2007
A Review of Digital Cinema by David Watson
the NFSA's Head of Information Management, and The quest for a digital strategy – quixotic or realistic?
The 20th century saw the rise of audiovisual media and with it the birth of audiovisual archiving, a profession that confronted many challenges in dealing with a variety of mostly analogue formats. With the increasing dominance of digital formats, the current century will see far more profound challenges for audiovisual archivists.
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Volume 1, No.1, 2006
A Charter of Curatorial Values by Paolo Cherchi Usai
This paper is an overview of the main cultural principles governing the activity of curators, with special reference to audiovisual collections in the context of the national and international archiving community.
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