Full Description
In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past--accessed with the touch of a finger--are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual culture affects our relationship with history and memory.
This collection of new essays contributes to a growing debate about how the past and its media are appropriated in the modern world. Focusing on a range of visual cultures, the essays explore the intersection of film, television, online and print media and visual art--platforms whose boundaries are increasingly hard to define--and the various ways we engage the past in an environment saturated with the imagery of previous eras. Topics include period screen fiction, nonfiction media histories and memories, cinematic nostalgia and recycling, and the media as both purveyors and carriers of memory.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Jilly Boyce Kay, Cat Mahoney and Caitlin Shaw)
Part
Recent Historical and Period
Fictions: Reframing the 20th Century
Modern Art and Mediated Histories: Pleasantville, Mona Lisa
Smile and Far from Heaven (Christine Sprengler)
Mad Men and Memory: Nostalgia, Intertextuality and Seriality in 21st Century Retro Television (Debarchana Baruah)
The Women's Land Army Remembered on British Television (Cat Mahoney)
Part II.
Feminism in Non-Fiction Media: Historical Narratives and Counter-Memories
"Spiced with a touch of glitz and a lot of fun": Watch the Woman, "Rogue" Feminism and 1980s Television for Women (Jilly Boyce Kay)
Feminist Magazines and Historicizing the Second Wave: Whose
Histories? (Claire Sedgwick)
Discursive Activism and Counter-Memories of SlutWalk (Kaitlynn Mendes)
Part III.
Media Histories and Discarded Technologies: Recycling Memory in the Information
The Same Handful of Images: Submarine, Indie Retro and 2000s Youth Cinema (Caitlin Shaw)
To Hold On or to Let Go? Small-Gauge Amateur Filmmaking
and Nostalgia in Super 8 and Frankenweenie (Marta Wąsik)
Room 237: Cinephilia, History and Adaptation (Laura Mee)
Part IV.
Sites of Memory: Mediating Iconic Spaces, Objects and Ephemera
The BBC Archive Post-Jimmy Savile: Irreparable Damage
or Recoverable Ground? (Rowan Aust and Amy Holdsworth)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Childhood Television
Memories (Jo Whitehouse-Hart)
"Whispers of escapades out on the 'D' train": The Entangled
Visions of Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (Vanessa Longden)
Space and Place to Remember: Television's Double Articulation
in the National Space Centre (Helen Wood and Tim O'Sullivan)
About the Contributors
Index
