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From Dynasty to Songs of Praise: television as cultural resource for gendered remembering
Despite detailed interrogations of the uses of media technologies and texts with overtly mnemonic
functions in memory studies, there remains a limited engagement with the significance of television
and everyday televisual texts in practices of remembering from specific social locations in the
interests of performing and constructing particular social identities. Often, programming which
refers to the past is considered from a textual rather than an audience perspective, and is viewed
routinely through the analytical framework of history rather than memory. This article attempts
to address this neglect by outlining the case for attending to television programmes beyond
the conventionally historical as specifically gendered mnemonic resources. The article uses data
drawn from in-depth interviews with women about their mnemonic practices to explore how
they use television in everyday instances of remembering, and considers how these contribute to
the articulation and construction of social identities.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIESVolume
14Issue
4Pages
395 - 410 (16)Citation
KEIGHTLEY, E., 2011. From Dynasty to Songs of Praise: television as cultural resource for gendered remembering. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14 (4), pp. 395 - 410.Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd / © The AuthorVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2011Notes
This article was published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies [Sage Publications Ltd / © The Author]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549411404618ISSN
1367-5494Publisher version
Language
- en