Séan Duffy
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This thesis will discuss how DVDs as a medium inherently act as an archival tool and encourage and facilitate the documentation and archiving of the filmmaking process, as well as how the modern shift away from physical media, towards digital content has resulted in a broader economic shift to an access-based model over an ownership based model, and the consequences this has had in regards to media access, attitudes towards engaging with content, and censorship.
Keywords: Archive, DVDs, Public Access, Special Features, Streaming
Séan Duffy is an artist from Louth, with a love for horror, comedy and costume design for animation and comics. He has a passion for physical media and archiving film. He wrote his thesis on DVDs as an archival medium and the current state of content ownership models, content distribution and public access.
