An archivist’s night at the movies, part VI: Christmas revisited
In the third entry in the Region of Peel Archive’s ongoing An Archivist’s Night at the Movies series (posted December 20th, 2018) I explored the use and depiction of records […]
Category Archives: Archives in pop culture
An Archivist’s Night at the Movies, Part V: Spooky Halloween Edition
I have long maintained that the pervasive power of records as storytelling devices means that they show up in all manner of films, across all genres. To further develop […]
An archivist’s night at the movies, part IV: Science fiction edition
As a lover of science fiction, I have decided to add another entry in our Archivist Night at the Movies series, seeking to boldly explore how creative teams involved with […]
An archivist’s night at the movies, part III: Holiday edition
For our last blog post of 2018 we felt it would be fun to turn our archival gaze on some classic holiday movies and television episodes to see how and […]
Archives and modern mythology: The use of archival records in comic books
“…what if comic books were not simply a medium of entertainment, but in fact a form of mythology through which we both tell stories about ourselves and look to for […]
An archivist’s night at the movies, part II
In this post I am going to continue our exploration of how records and/or Archives are used by writers and directors to further the plot of various films. Part one […]
An archivist’s night at the movies – revealing the power of archival records
As a follow up to my colleague Nick Moreau’s post concerning the depiction of archives in the 2014 movie Paddington, I thought it might be […]
Hiding Darkest Peru: archives fact or fiction in “Paddington”
In the 2014 movie Paddington, based on the popular books about Paddington Bear, the titular character is aiming to find an explorer from the the fictitious British Geographer’s Guild, who […]
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