TMG Journal for Media History
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NL) |
| ISSN | 1387-649X / 2213-7653 |
| Wikidata | Q50816224 |
| OpenAlex | S4210175058 |
| MAG | 4210175058 |
| Sitio web | http://www.tmgonline.nl |
| Total de publicaciones | 87 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2018 - 2025 |
| País | NL |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acceso | Open Access |
| Indexación | Indexada en DOAJ |
| Factor de impacto | 0.051 |
This journal focuses on media history, which can intersect with cultural studies and social/cultural history. While not directly anthropological, it falls within cognate humanities fields with regular, though not central, intersection
Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Cultural Identity and Representation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Diverse Musicological Studies · Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
Averting the Digital Dark Age
Book review of: Ian Milligan, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), 230 pp., ISBN 9781421450131
Exiled Airwaves
By studying more local, small-scale radio stations with transnational reach, such as “Voice of Truth,” media history scholarship can better understand the complexity of media landscapes during the Cold War. The production team of the exiled Greek communist radio station based in Bucharest worked to reconcile grand Marxist theories and ideological frameworks with the daily experiences of their target audience, namely Greek labour migrants in West …
Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture
Book review of: Elodie A. Roy, Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), 240 pp., ISBN 9789463729543
Drawing from the Archives
Book review of: Benoît Crucifix, Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 288 pp., ISBN 9781009250931
The Relational Mode
Interrogating the role of archives in sustaining historical erasures, this paper examines the overlooked work of Iranian filmmaker Farideh Fardjam, who documented Turkish labour migrants in the Netherlands in the early 1970s. Despite their historical significance, Fardjam’s films have faded into obscurity, reflecting broader archival silences surrounding diasporic women filmmakers of colour. Through an intersectional lens, this study explores Far…
A Conditional Welcome
This article examines how early Dutch public television in the post-World War II era mediated the repatriation of Indo-Dutch and Moluccan migrants, bringing together the intertwined histories of media and migration as television emerged as a central cultural institution. Analysing broadcasts from the 1950s and 1960s, it argues that early television did not simply document migration but actively shaped the emotional and political terms under which…
Migration in Media Histories
This special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History aims to historicize the entanglement of media and migration. Encompassing a wide range of experiences of human mobility, including labour migration, postcolonial migration, refugee conditions, exile, and diaspora, regimes of representation, in/visibility, and audibility, media have been central in the framing of migration as problem, threat, crisis or emergency. Yet (digital) media have also b…
Reporting on the Rituals of Islam
This article delves into the history of Dutch television representation of Muslim immigrants and traces the coverage of Islamic rituals over five decades. Since the arrival of Turkish and Moroccan ‘guest workers’ in the 1960s, these rituals have sparked discussions about the place of Islam in Dutch society. Ever since, Dutch television has exhibited a fascination for Islamic rituals, in particular for the two major Islamic celebrations – the Fest…
Performing Plurality
Social media platforms have provided people with a psychiatric label the opportunity to build communities and share their stories without relying on the mediation of therapists, publishers, or broadcasters. Among them are people who identify not as one whole self, but as a system of plural personalities, often labeled as dissociative identity disorder (DID). People with plural identities started sharing videos on YouTube as a means to convey thei…
Biblioscope and the Variety of Disability Media
In the mid-1950s, the Gothenburg-based photographer Andrej Gavrjusjov constructed a microfilm reading device called Biblioscope, intended for hospital patients with physical impairments. Throughout the following years, reading devices and microfilmed books were distributed to hospital libraries across Sweden, but in the mid-1960s, the Biblioscope was taken out of distribution. By analysing this now largely forgotten technology, the article makes …
‘A Part of Some Other’s Experience’
Disability representations are never divorced from their complex cultural and political contexts. This article argues that a culturally specific understanding of disability in the 1930s sheds new light on the superficially problematic disability representation in popular 1939 Hollywood melodrama, Dark Victory. While Bette Davis’ disabled heroine dies, perpetuating eugenic understandings of disabled people as unworthy of life, she also fosters a v…
A Not Entirely Secret History of Superinjunctions Against the British Press
This article revisits the history of judicial pre-publication censorship since the passage of the 1998 Human Rights Act – mainly non-disclosure injunctions commonly referred to as superinjunctions – through the interplay between three ilities: Practicability, accountability and suitability. The intertwining of these three concepts offers a pathway to explore various strategies of circumvention employed within news organisations, the legislative a…
Unveiling Complexity
The cinematic representation of Apartheid, and in particular the tendency of using white protagonists to narrate the story of black suffering, has been the object of much scholarly enquiry but this has never included Dutch films. This article explores the representation of Afrikaner anti-Apartheid activism in Dutch cinema through an analysis of the films Black Butterflies (2011) and An Act of Defiance (2017). It investigates how these films perpe…
Introduction. Disability Media Histories
TMG Journal for Media History wants to promote research in media history and publish the results of that research. It offers a platform for original research and for contributions that reflect theory formation and methods within media history. TMG Journal for Media History wants to represent media history across the board: contributions may focus on film, radio, TV and the press, but also on new media, photography and printmaking – provided that …
Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the ‘Archaeologists’
Book review of: Ivo Blom, Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the ‘Archaeologists’ (Edizioni Kaplan, 2023), 310 pp., ISBN 978-88-99559-66-3
(Sounding) Silence
To conceptualise dysfluency as mediated otherwise, I trace a genealogical history from postwar to contemporary sound experimentations. By examining the generative threshold between sound and silence, I build on some key and emerging scholarship on dysfluency, while highlighting the work of stuttering and stammering practitioners Alvin Lucier and Jerome Ellis, whose pieces, I argue, further an anti-ableist media ecology. Although working through d…
Me and AAC - Alternative and Augmented Communication in West Germany from a Biographical and Media Archaeological Perspective
The article presents a case study on the history of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in West Germany from the 1980s to the early 2000s, with a regional focus on the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The conceptual framework guiding this study is the question of how the meaning and individual experience of assistance evolve in conjunction with the technical development and practical use of speech computers. The article sheds l…
De muziekfabriek. TMF en de Nederlandse popcultuur
Book review of: Jaap Kooijman, De muziekfabriek. TMF en de Nederlandse popcultuur (Mazirel Pers, 2024), 183 pp., ISBN: 978 9464 560 527
Radiophilia
Book review of: Carolyn Birdsall, Radiophilia (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)., 296 pp., ISBN 9781501374968
Screen Memories
This article explores the counterhegemonic uses of audiovisual media —such as film, video, and television— by migrant women workers, specifically focusing on the media tactics of self-representation used in the intersectional feminist activism of migrant women workers from the Turkish Republic in the Netherlands from 1975 to 1985. Through comprehensive archival research, it aims to historically contextualise and critically evaluate the archival c…
'These Are Not New Bigots' – Queer TV, Erinnerungskultur and the Potential of Unproduction Studies
The article discusses queer television using US and West-German prime-time soaps Dallas, Dynasty, Lindenstraße and drama series thirtysomething, outlining how they are in dialogue with each other through an entangled Cold War history. It places special focus on the depiction of gay and bisexual men during the HIV/AIDS crisis, as this chapter of queer history remains both decisive for public opinion on queer issues across borders, and its history …
Fighting for Better Representation of Women in and on RTÉ
This article examines the role that women’s activism and advocacy played in early Irish television and the opportunities for and representation of women in national broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ). It focuses on two groups: RTÉ’s own Working Group on Women in Broadcasting, which reported in 1981, and the Women in Broadcasting Study Group of 1980, headed by Senator Gemma Hussey. Both investigated practices of employment of women and the ro…
Television, Animals, and History
Animals have been a part of television’s offerings since its inception. Yet animals are largely absent in television’s histories; indeed, animals are largely absent in most histories, with history itself a practice that reproduces anthropocentrism. But animal histories remain methodologically problematic, given the kinds of records usually understood as historical evidence are not those produced by non-humans. And recent attempts to widen televis…
Pause and Rewind
TMG Journal for Media History wants to promote research in media history and publish the results of that research. It offers a platform for original research and for contributions that reflect theory formation and methods within media history. TMG Journal for Media History wants to represent media history across the board: contributions may focus on film, radio, TV and the press, but also on new media, photography and printmaking – provided that …
Instant TV. The Forgotten History of Video Tape Recording (and the Coverage of the Eichmann Trial)
This article adopts a media archaeological approach to the Eichmann trial (1961) to explore the technology and media constellations that enabled its global television coverage. Drawing on extensive archival research, it offers insights into the technological setup and institutional cooperation crucial for the broadcast. In this context, video tape recording played a pivotal role, facilitating instantaneous reporting from around the world. Informe…
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Comparative, Entangled, Parallel and ‘Other’ Cinema Histories. Another Reflection on the Comparative Mode Within New Cinema History
In 2016 we published an article in Alphaville on film studies and the comparative mode. 1 The piece was part of a special issue on cinema heritage in Europe, and it reflected upon the buzz around doing comparative research within New Cinema History. At that time, several large research projects focused upon comparing issues of film programming, cinemagoing experiences and other aspects related to film exhibition across cities. The issue itself wa…
Robbe De Hert
Het oeuvre van de Belgische cineast Robbe De Hert (20 september 1942 – 24 augustus 2020) is erg divers. Hij realiseerde experimentele animatiefilms ( A Funny Thing Happened on my Way to Golgotha ) en maatschappijkritische filmpamfletten ( Camera sutra ), maar evengoed een populaire komedie ( Zware jongens ), een adaptatie van een historische plattelandsroman ( De Witte van Sichem ) of een Willem Elsschotverfilming ( Lijmen/Het been ). De Hert was…
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
This article examines the location production of the early Hollywood blockbuster movie A Daughter of the Gods (1916) in British colonial Jamaica on the basis of historical newspapers and magazines, and demonstrates the close ties between film, tourism and empire on the island in the early twentieth century, both materially and ideologically. In so doing, the article reflects a twofold comparative perspective: between different histories and betwe…
Challenges to Comparative Oral Histories of Cinema Audiences
This article reflects on the challenges of comparative oral history analysis by taking the BA/Leverhulme-funded project Mapping European Cinema: a comparative project on cinema-going experiences in the 1950s (2016-2017) as a case study. The aim of MEC was to test new methodologies in order to explore and compare programming patterns and cinema-going experiences in European cities that were similar in terms of population and film exhibition struct…
Der Weg nach Rio in Brazil
The article discusses the relevance of the histoire croisée approach that has been only marginally applied to film and cinema historical research. Histoire croisée is an approach to write history from a transnational perspective. It tries to overcome the conceptual shortcomings of comparative and transfer studies and integrates them into its theoretical framework. The case study of a political-cultural conflict between Brazil and Germany illustra…
Screening ‘Good Neighbors’
From 1941-1945, the educational filmmaker and travel-film lecturer Julien Bryan (1899-1974) produced 23 documentary shorts on Latin American ‘Good Neighbors’ for Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which distributed them widely across US sites of formal and informal learning during World War II. Although cultural historians in the past twenty years have provided considerable insight into the production mandat…
From POPSTAT to RelPOP
In this brief essay, I suggest that during the era when filmgoing dominated all other paid-for-leisure activities, the POPSTAT method opens a portal onto civil society. It allows us to understand the process by which films were diffused; the reason why they were diffused in this manner; the preferences of audiences for particular films and by inference what excited them; the manner in which these informal (subjective) preferences co-existed with …
Literature and Journalism in Portugal
Using a cultural and transnational history approach, this paper aims to situate the origins of Portuguese journalism from 1865–1900 in a much broader set of literary practices. To understand the relationship between literature and journalism, it follows the trajectory of the novelist Eça de Queirós, an intellectual who had a keen perception of the historical context in which he lived (1845–1900). The fact that he lived abroad during most of his a…
Mimehist
Focussing on the CLARIAH pilot project MIMEHIST: Annotating EYE’s Jean Desmet Collection, this short article discusses how the MIMEHIST project took inspiration from previous decades’ multimedia and video annotation scholarship in film studies to conceptualise video annotation functionalities for studying Eye Filmmuseum’s Jean Desmet Collection in the Media Suite. The article first discusses how MIMEHIST situated itself in relation to past and cu…
Transnational Journalism History
Introduction to the special issue on Transnational Journalism History
Comparative Search in Digital Newspaper and Audiovisual Archives
De liefdesverklaring aan een foto-archief over koloniale oorlogsvoering
Book review of: Pierre Schill (ed.). Réveiller l’archive d’une guerre coloniale. (Grane, Creaphis Éditions, 2018), 482 pp. isbn 9782354281410
Framing Contests Between Dutch Activists and Local News Media
In order to gain a better understanding of the dynamics between activists and mainstream media, this paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch, Leiden-based anarchist collective Eurodusnie (1997–2002) responded to negative publicity. While many have described the relationship between social movements and the mass media as asymmetric, assigning a dominant role to mass media, our paper emphasises the agency of a local social movement and the strat…
Encountering the ‘Other’ by Lifting the Iron Curtain
After World War II, American Society of Newspaper Editors members focused on sharing their journalistic ideals with Soviet journalists. Between 1961 and 1970 Soviet journalists travelled to the United States, ASNE members travelled to the Soviet Union to encourage greater free flows of information between both countries. This study provides insights into American editors’ transnational activities and attempts to spread Western journalistic ideals…
Involving Users in Infrastructure Development
In this contribution we introduce a compilation of articles that reflect on the use of the CLARIAH Media Suite and its impact on research methods, as they were conducted during the CLARIAH research pilot projects (2017-18). The pilot projects fit in a co-development approach in which users are involved in infrastructure development from the start. We discuss how feedback of the pilot researchers was incorporated in the iterative development and t…
Currents of Revolution
This article explores how the US news media was impacted by events in mid-twentieth century Cuba, namely, the 1959 Revolution and the demise of Havana as a Latin American media capital. This study argues that the Cuban Revolution and its exiles influenced the US news media industry in three significant ways: 1) propelled the expansion of US Spanish-language media, particularly the news, by incorporating Cuban media professionals and serving immig…
Mapping European Performing Arts Databases
Over the last two decades, a growing number of databases have been published online that record historical information on the production, distribution and reception of performing arts. The aim of this contribution is to present a starting inventory of European performing arts databases that are available online, since no such overview exists to date
Early Development of News Sites in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1990s
The many close, trans-Atlantic connections between the United States and Britain were the setting and inspiration for much of how these nations’ respective media systems produce and consume news online today. Publishers, software engineers and journalists in both nations shared worries about the impact of the internet on the newspaper industry, and the early migration—or, in many cases, the uneven migration—to online news sites during the 1990s. …
Transnational Journalism History and China Matters
As a valuable historiographical approach to investigating media and culture in the Asia-Pacific region, transnational journalism history has begun to inquire into the interconnectedness between media landscapes of Western countries and those of the Far East. This article reflects on the historical interconnectedness between Chinese journalism and its overseas counterparts, showing how China matters appeal to the growing discourse of transnational…
NarDis
Our CLARIAH research pilot ‘Narrativizing Disruption’ (NarDis) investigates how (digital) humanities researchers who use audio-visual materials in their research practices can benefit from digital tools that help them better understand how media representations construct meaning. This research pilot uses a case study approach to delve deeper into the relationship between scholarly search and storytelling – by concentrating on how, specifically, t…
Transnational Environments and 'Mixed Signals' in Radio Propaganda
This paper explores Mandarin-language radio operations broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)’s External Service Programming and the United States Information Agency (USIA)’s ‘Voice of America’ (VOA) programming from 1949-1976, particularly the concerns over language among employees as they attempted to shape public opinion across a variety of Chinese-speaking audiences in the ‘Far East’ region. Using archival, memoir, and oral h…
De krant
Book review of: Huub Wijfjes and Frank Harbers (eds.), De krant: Een cultuurgeschiedenis, (Amsterdam: Boom, 2019), 352 pp., isbn 9789024419814
CrossEWT
The CLARIAH research pilot project ‘CrossEWT’ entailed an inventory of interviews with eyewitnesses of the Second World War as published in newspapers, television documentaries and oral history databases. The aim was to analyse the topics of these interviews, and how these may have differed per medium and over time since 1945. The Media Suite facilitates comparative research into collections of different media types that traditionally are studied…
The European Illustrated Press
Book review of: Thomas Smits, The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News , 1842-1870. (London: Routledge, 2020), 240 pp., isbn 978-0-429-28438-0
Transcending Boundaries
Among the female war reporters of the First World War, Annie Christitch stands out as a journalist, lecturer and Catholic suffragist whose biography and career transcended national boundaries. Of Irish-Serbian descent, she was raised in a renowned family in Belgrade and St Petersburg, went to university in London and became fluent in several languages. During the war, she acted as correspondent for the London Daily Express and as a nurse and reli…