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From Méliès to New Media is an exploration of the presence and importance of film history in digital culture. The author demonstrates that new media forms are not only indebted to, but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture. This book presents a comparative examination of pre-cinema and new media: early film experiments with contemporary music videos; silent films and their digital restorations; German Expressionist film and post-noir cinema; French Gothic film and the contemporary digital remake; and more. Using a media archaeology approach, Wendy Haslem envisages the potential of new discoveries that foreground forgotten or marginalized contributions to film history.
 

Wendy Haslem is lecturer in screen studies and director of the Bachelor of Arts program at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of A Charade of Innocence and Vice: Hollywood Gothic Films of the 1940s, co-author of Experimenta: Playground, and co-editor of the anthologies Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman and Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation.