Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/shapins-jesse-c355all.aspx Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:43:03 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/a-media-archaeology-of-boston-p596.aspx Product596 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:49:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/a-media-archaeology-of-boston-p596.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/media-archaeology.jpg" alt="A Media Archaeology of Boston" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/a-media-archaeology-of-boston-p596.aspx">A Media Archaeology of Boston</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/a-media-archaeology-of-boston-p596.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div>Using the Boston region as a laboratory for exploring different modes of urban representation across both history and media, <i>A Media Archaeology of Boston</i> exhibits a carefully-selected excavation of the city's spaces through a montage of short films, photographs, postcards, and soundscapes of the larger metropolitan area. Far from a comprehensive survey, <i>A Media Archaeology of Boston</i> aims to provoke new experiences of the city and, simultaneously, to challenge everyday perceptions of it.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>Unlike Los Angeles or New York, whose image has been meticulously produced and systematically canonized through mass and independent media, Boston is a place where media practice has taken place on the margins of central venues of production and distribution. From industrial films by the Ford Motor Company to discharged advertising reels of local businesses to state-sponsored documentaries by experimental filmmakers investigating the harbor's environmental health, <i>Media Archaeology of Boston</i> provides insight into a city that expands beyond its celebrated historical landscape to encompass a multiplicity of perspectives toward diverse parts of the metropolitan area.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Integrating content, form, time, place, and medium in our curatorial process, we aim to construct a more complex, subjective matrix of multiple perspectives on Boston, without any claims of objectivity or comprehensiveness. The DVD opens up this collection of documentations to the audience and invites participation in the construction of new stories, of new narratives. <i>A Media Archaeology of Boston</i>, above all, remains an open and incomplete collection that presents a map of possibilities.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS</b></div><div>Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2009</div></div><div><br /></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/shapins-jesse-c355all.aspx">Shapins, Jesse</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>