This class will examine restoring (digitally remastering) old soundtracks and composing new soundtracks to silent films as effects of the film archive, or what Derrida calls the anarachivity of the archive. DVDs and blu-rays wil include The Phantom Carriage; The Man with a Movie Camera (KINO and BFI editions); Nosferatu (Eureka / KINO edition) ; Battleship Potemkin (KINO blu-ray); Muranu, Faust (Eureka Masters of Cinema edition). Readings will include Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever; Paolo Cherchi Usai, Silent Cinema, an Introduction (British Film Institute); Paolo Cherchi Usai, Francis, David, Horwath, Alexander, Loebenstein, Michael, ed. Film Curatorship: Museums, Curatorship and the Moving Image; Paolo Cherchi Usai, The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age. We will also turn our attention from time to films that are "about" the transition from silent to sound cinema in 1929. Films may include Alfred Hitchcock (sound and silent versions) Blackmail; A Cottage on Dartmoor; Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard; Jean Renoir, Rules of the Game; Rene Clair, Le Million, A Nous la Liberte, and Under the Roofs of Paris, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times; Fritz Lang, M; Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre sa Vie.