Year: 2011
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In 2005 it was suggested within a New York Times article that perhaps a university level\nqualification in film studies could be considered “the new MBA” given the moving image’s\nextraordinary capacity for communicating messages on a global scale (Van Ness, 2005). The\nincreasingly prominent position of films in the academic library from the early ‘90s onwards\nhas popularly been attributed to the rise of film studies in universities along with advances\nin home video technology. Such developments have facilitated the holding of open access\nDVD and VHS collections of popular films in the academic library. However the growth of\npopular film collections has been contemporaneous with an increasing focus on postmodern\ntheory and cultural studies in film studies and the decline of the practice of evaluation from\nacademic film study. In this environment film canons compiled and endorsed by film\nacademics have disappeared to be replaced by a proliferation of “best of” lists compiled by\npopular magazines and websites. This thesis analyses the film collections of seven Irish\nuniversity libraries in order to determine whether or not film canons do continue to play a\nrole in their formation and development.
Source: eSource (Dublin Business School)
Author: Ian O’Loughlin
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2133012018