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Trapped in Amber: The New Materialities of Memory

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dc.creatorElsaesser, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-25T11:48:09Z
dc.date.available2020-08-25T11:48:09Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe term ‘obsolescence’ has in recent years re-entered the vocabulary of the art world, memory studies and new media historians. In the process, it has significantly changed its meaning and enlarged its semantic and evaluative range, even signifying something like heroic resistance to relentless new-ness or superficial novelty, even becoming the badge of honour for all that is no longer useful (for capitalism, for appropriation, for instrumental objectification). Anyone engaged with ‘found footage’ films, with home movies or our analogue cinematic legacy knows that the strategic use of obsolescence lies in the fact that it is a term that inevitably associates with both capitalism and technology. Hence obsolescence is of special interest in the context of contemporary cinema, since it provides a counterweight – the materiality of memory, and the methodology of media archaeology – to the immateriality and virtuality of the digital. But the obsolescence of celluloid also gives us a kind of ‘fossil record’ of what has become of the filmic ‘medium’ when we see it in the broader context of the ‘geological’ time of media, and as part of the ‘archival’ turn that memory studies have taken in the 21st century.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2018.19.10
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14801
dc.identifier.urihttps://film-history.org/issues/text/trapped-amber-new-materialities-memory
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15786
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversität Bremen
dc.publisher.placeBremen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2627-5848
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in Film and History
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectGedächtnisde
dc.subjectMaterialitätde
dc.subjectObsoleszenzde
dc.subjectMedienarchäologiede
dc.subjectTopografiede
dc.subjectmemoryen
dc.subjectmaterialityen
dc.subjectobsolescenceen
dc.subjectmedia archeologyen
dc.subjecttopographyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workTHE SUN ISLAND
dc.subject.workSTORIES WE TELL
dc.titleTrapped in Amber: The New Materialities of Memoryen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:54:28
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2018.19.10
local.source.epage15
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleResearch, Debates and Projects 2.0
local.source.spage1
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7620031

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