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Janna Jones
Janna Jones is a professor of creative media and film in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. A twentieth-century historian, Jones’s scholarship focuses on the history of cinemagoing, architectural and cinematic preservation, amateur filmmaking and public exhibition and art. Her books, The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall and Resurrection (2003) and The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film (2012), focus on the ways preservationists and archivists necessarily help to construct the history of the twentieth century of the United States.