Roger Leatherwood has an MA in film archiving from UCLA and currently works in instructional media there. His book Mondo Cine: The World of Film Exhibition and Archiving in Revolution explores the shift from analog to digital and the disappearance of film culture. The Phantom Archivist and The Phantom Archives: The Amateur Online Archive of Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
“Kahan’s site encroaches on the nascent landscape of a new mode of archival behavior, increasingly obligatory in and enabled by the digital age, in which archival collections move out of the physical tyranny of closed vaults, reconceived as virtual and dynamic, to empower a wider audience of users through hypermodern modes of informed and active engagement.”
