When we look at pictures

Travel television and the intimacy of companion memory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905280
AutoresChris Healy (0000-0001-6704-8357, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen6
Número3
Páginas262-272
Fecha de publicación2013-06-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698013482645
OpenAlexW2316561699
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

Remembering in ‘modern’ Australia arises first and foremost through the transcultural processes of settler colonialism. This article explores some questions of memory’s cultures through a discussion of ‘travel television’. It argues that this kind of television is an example of a hybrid or non-human form of remembering that I call companion memory. I consider two examples: the 1950s television series, Australian Walkabout, and a recent television series on Australian indigenous art, Art + Soul. I conclude by considering how memory and travel might help us think about the kinds of intimacy and proximity implied by the notion of ‘memory up close’

Collective memory · Colonialism · Cultural memory · Epistemology · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Soul · Television series · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology