Title: Television, Collective Memory and the Commemoration Cure
Abstract: This chapter examines commemoration in television factual programming (news and documentaries) with a view to teasing out its discursive realisations and demonstrating through four interrelated case studies the potential cross-cultural valence of such discourse realisations. Commemoration is a widely used term which broadly refers to 'the practices and artefacts [...] that social groups mobilise to represent the past to them and others' (Conway 2010: 444). In its social group dimension, commemoration is closely linked to a central notion in the interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies, namely that of collective memory. This term was introduced by the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1925/1992, 1950/1980) in the 1920s.1 For Halbwachs all individual memory is necessarily constructed within social institutions and structures, that is, memory depends upon the 'cadre' within which specific social groups are situated.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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