The Archive: Theory, Caroline Frick
“Contemporary cultural theorists largely approach and critique archives as sites of power that employ a perceived, naïve belief in adherence to objectivity, despite transparent absences and gaps amid collection. Archivists, however, share this concern, remaining acutely and forever concerned over what has been lost and the areas of their collections will never cover” (Frick 12).
“[T]he archive” is increasingly imbued with notions of sanctioned cultural value, protection, ownership, and power-power emboldened and sanctioned by the archive's emphasis on preservation....cultural theorists, media scholars, and film archivists tend to share an additional assumption or belief that is rarely integrated:the status of the moving image as heritage” (Frick 13).
Frick, Caroline. Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.
