Barbara Klinger Quotes

b. 1951 United States

Barbara Klinger (born 1951) is an American film professor and theorist, who once served as the Provost Professor of Film and Media Studies at Indiana University until she retired in 2015. Besides that, she is also the author of various books (which includes the book Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk, published in 1994); along with a number of scholarly articles, all of which have been published in various academic journals.

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It’s just about the work of balancing between analog archival and/or digital sources that the contemporary media historian has to undertake and that everybody here has undertaken.

Lost, dead, never made, absent and more. We’ve heard a lot of those terms coursing through the various papers during this session and also during the course of the day, the ultimate challenge in many ways for the archivists as well as the film historian scholar.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Klinger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.