2019 | 15 | Material Histories of Television
Television’s material culture offers a starting point into this exploration of television’s current status. Artefacts and material traces are imbued with social relations. They unearth for us the web of users, uses and meanings associated to television, both in its historical and present form. This edition of VIEW explores many ways in which television’s material heritage can be repurposed or exploited, bringing to the fore new emergent uses for this older medium.
Co-edited by John Ellis and Dana Mustata
Editorial: Material Histories of Television
S. 1-4
Discoveries
Television Sound Operators: Who Were They and What Exactly Did They Do?
S. 5-21
Culture Under Threat: Minority Hyperlocal Cable Television in Finland
S. 22-31
Making Old Television Technology Make Sense
S. 32-45
The Site of a Film Set as Material Heritage: A Case Study of the Pohjola Village from Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron) TV-Series
S. 46-58
Explorations
Grounding TV’s Material Heritage: Place-based Projects That Value or Vilify Amateur Videocassette Recordings of Television
S. 59-78
The Rise and Fall of the Analogue Television Set: From Modernity to Media Heritage
S. 79-90
Filming for Television: How a 16mm Film Crew Worked Together
S. 91-110
Memory, Nostalgia and the Material Heritage of Children’s Television in the Museum
S. 111-122
Implementing Low Cost Digital Libraries for Rural Communities by Re-functioning Obsolescent Television Sets: The Offline-pedia Project
S. 123-139