Film Stock

<P><B>A global collection exploring the vital significance of film's materiality to the history of cinema</B></P><P>Made from animal bones, plant cellulose, and precious metals, photochemical film defined a century of cinema. Looking past Hollywood and beyond iconic companies like Eastman Kodak, Agfa, and Pathé, <I>Film Stock</I> travels to Argentina, India, Czechoslovakia, and other locales to offer a truly global history of the very material of film.</P><P>Engaging with cultural, political, economic, and environmental questions of significant contemporary concern, <I>Film Stock </I>shows the immense consequences of how film was made, handled, processed, destroyed, and archived. Individual essays explore how climate shaped film distribution in early twentieth-century Southeast Asia, unique film formats manufactured in China, early efforts to standardize the size of film stock in Hollywood, and how Eastman Kodak's tropical research lab in Panama became a tool of cultural empire.</P><P>With a deep commitment to archival research and substantive engagement with primary materials, <I>Film Stock </I>is a major work that tells the international story of film's physical life. Its innovative, groundbreaking essays make a compelling case for why, even in our digital age, motion picture film matters.</P><P><B>Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.</B></P>