Making (shelf) space for VHS: AGFA and the preservation of genre film access copies

• Main Author: Adam Abouaccar
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Film; television and digital media; n.e.c; Archival; repository and related studies; Video recordings > Collection and preservation; Motion picture film collection > Collection and preservation; American Genre Film Archive > Collection and preservation; American Genre Film Archive > History; Film archives; Film genres > Collection and preservation; Film genres > Digitization; anishina*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14645505.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Making_shelf_space_for_VHS_AGFA_and_the_preservation_of_genre_film_access_copies/14645505

Thismasters research project, All Kinds of People, All Kinds of Ways, proposes that gender is a constructed concept producedby colonial, capitalist, and patriarchal structures. This is illustrated through a three-channel video installation ofthe same name that utilizes conversations with two-spirit, Anishinaabe participants whose traditions express the fluidityof genderidentity. The research done inthis paper further supports these discussionsthrough an analysisof feminist andqueer theory, as well as a look atvarious cultures around the world that have similar understandings of non-fixed gender.