Materializing Memories

Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs

Professor Susan Aasman, Professor Andreas Fickers, Professor Joseph Wachelder (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3323-1 (ISBN)

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A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and moments with family, friends, and even strangers. Memory practices such as home movies, which originated as the privilege of a few, well-to-do families, have now emerged as ubiquitous and immediate cultures of sharing. Departing from the history of home movies, this volume offers a sophisticated understanding of technologically mediated, mostly ritualized memory practices, from early beginnings in the fin-de-siècle to today.

Departing from a longue durée perspective on home movie practices, Materializing Memories moves beyond a strict historical study to grapple with highly theorized fields, such as media studies, memory studies, and science and technology studies (STS). The contributors to this volume reflect on these different intellectual backgrounds and perspectives, but all chapters share a common framework by addressing practices of use, user configurations, and relevant media landscapes. Grasping the cultural dynamics of such multi-faceted practices requires a multidimensional conceptual approach, here achieved by centering around three concepts as central analytical lenses: dispositifs, generations, and amateurs.

Susan Aasman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. As a media historian and active researcher, she has written extensively about the history of amateur media and the history of documentary filmmaking. Since 2012, she has served as the chief editor for the Dutch Journal for Media History. Andreas Fickers is Professor of Contemporary and Digital History at Luxembourg University, Luxembourg. His research ranges from transnational media history to the European history of technology and theory of digital history. He is the co-editor in chief of the open access online journal VIEW - European Journal of Television History and Culture and the author, most recently, of Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events (Palgrave, 2016). Joseph Wachelder is Associate Professor of History at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on interactions between science and culture, and his wide-ranging publication history has addressed issues in higher education, the popularization of science, colour and sense experience in art and science, and educational toys and games. He has previously held positions in Gewina (the Dutch Society for the History of Medicine, Mathematics, Science and Technology) and the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS).

Table of Contents
1. Introduction (eds.)
Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph Wachelder

Part I Dispositifs

2. Amateur technologies of memory, devices and media, communication spaces, Roger Odin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France)

3. Hybrid Histories: Historicizing the Home Movie Dispositif, Tim van der Heijden (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)

4. The Emergence of Early Artists’ Video in Europe & the USA and its’ Relationship to Broadcast TV, Chris Meigh-Andrews (University of the West of England / University of Central Lancashire, UK)

5. Materiality, Practices, Problematizations: What Kind of Dispositif Are Media? Markus Stauff (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

6. How to grasp historical media dispositifs in practice? Andreas Fickers (Université de Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Part II Generations

7. Belated Screenings of Home Movies: Biographical Storytelling and Generational Referencing, Joseph Wachelder (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)

8. The Social Construction of Generations in a Media Society: The Case of Postwar West Germany, Benjamin Möckel (Universität Köln, Germany)

9. “Generation Channel 36”: Pirated VHS Tapes and Remembering the Polish People’s Republic in the Age of P2P Networks, Miroslaw Filiciak (University of Social Sciences and Humanities SWPS, Poland)

10. Becoming YouTube’s Grandad: Media, Age, and Generation in a Virtual Community, Susan Aasman (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Part III Amateurs

11. Amateurs: Naïve Artists or Everyday Experts, Patrice Flichy (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)

12. Charting Changing Production Practices: Testimonials of Moviemaking Enthusiasts, Ryan Shand (University of West Scotland, Glasgow, UK)

13. Home Mode, Community Mode, Counter Mode: Three Functional Modalities for Coming to Terms with Amateur Media Practices, Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

14. ‘Something More’: the Analysis of Visual Gestalting in Amateur Films, Daniele Wecker (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-3323-2 / 1501333232
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3323-1 / 9781501333231
Zustand	Neuware