The effort to prevent the loss of moving images. With 70% of silent films already gone, it is one of the most urgent problems in cultural heritage.
James Curran and Jean Seaton's political economy of media — applied to Spielberg's CinemaCon warning, the death of antitrust in Hollywood, and the streaming preservation crisis.
Fight Club's ending was rewritten for China, Disney removed a slur from The French Connection, and streaming platforms can alter films silently. Why physical media remains the only immutable record of what directors actually made.
When Warner Bros Discovery deleted Batgirl and removed Looney Tunes from HBO Max for tax write-offs, much became permanently inaccessible. Why streaming has ended accidental film preservation and what happens when platforms decide content isn't worth keeping.
How a missing copyright notice transformed Night of the Living Dead into public domain and made horror accessible to everyone whilst nearly destroying the film itself.
