Abstract
In 2005, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum opened in Springfield, Illinois, offering a new-media-driven ghost show as its museological mission statement. Catalyzed by an innocent peek at the journal of a soldier in the 33rd Illinois Regiment, the show follows a researcher's quiet evening at the library as it turns into a phantasmagoric visitation by harrowing battlefield acoustics and ghosts of fallen soldiers. In a deft – and problematic – manipulation of the audience's assumptions about display technologies' capacities, the show puts digital media to the task of resuscitating the otherwise lifeless artefacts and positing history as a constructionist, adaptive pursuit. In this capacity, Ghosts of the Library helps us to address two interrelated issues critical to contemporary media studies: museology's debates about remediating historical artefacts via digital media and film theory's debates about the uncertain digitized future of cinema.
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