Flückiger, Barbara2018-09-262018-09-262012https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/material-properties-of-historical-film-in-the-digital-age/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3205In his landmark study THE VIRTUAL LIFE OF FILM, David N. Rodowick rephrases André Bazin’s famous question ‘what is cinema?’ using the past tense: ‘what was cinema?’ He notes that, paradoxically, film studies is dealing with an object that no longer exists; it ceased existing as an object of study in the 1970s when ‘cinema’ as ‘the projection of a photographically recorded filmstrip in a theatrical setting’ was replaced by various other means of presentation, such as video cassettes and later video discs.engDigitales KinoDigitalisierungFilmMaterialitätOpazitätKonservierungKörperkontaktdigitalfilmmaterialopacitypreservationtangibility02810.5117/NECSUS2012.2.FLUE10.25969/mediarep/150532213-0217