Abstract
Since the 1990s, moving images archives have been widespread means of and Media and Film studies. This paper explores the urgency with which the moving images archival project in Japan has been approached, noting that similar archives in French and United States of America tend to be more substantial in regards to the collecting and conserving of materials, and the access of these materials to the public. This paper then examines the advantages and weakness of qualitative research methods by using the specific case study of television programs archives. Its strengths include an advanced objectivity, pertaining to the openness and accessibility of research materials. However there are issues regarding the limits of this conventional mode of analysis. This paper ultimately seeks to offer a way addressing this weakness in regards to research analyzing television program archives, specifically in regards to the relationship between image and sound, between subject and producer and to certain kinds of interviews. Discourse analysis is offered as an effective alternative in the construction of this alternate method.
