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Moving Image History and the F-Word; or, "Digital Film" Is an Oxymoron
- Film History: An International Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1-2, 2013
- pp. 227-235
- Article
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Film historians and Film History face the historiographical problem of naming their object of study. What will the word film mean from this point forward? Now that digital video files have displaced photochemical motion-picture film, historians and scholars should avoid referring to digital moving image works as "films."