Half the World Away

This chapter is constructed around a series of examples drawn from cinema, contemporary art and television itself that reveal much about the place of television within the popular imagination. More specifically, each represents a different way in which television’s role in the construction of collective and individual memory can be articulated, explored and imagined. It is not an exhaustive compendium of television’s multiple relationships with memory — there is still much to be discovered — but an introduction to existing thought and a rethinking of the phenomenological aspects of this relationship; a relationship which finds fruitful lines of inquiry by considering the symbolic functions taken on by television as a visual medium and a material object. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Compendium · Media studies · Movie theater · Object (grammar) · Political science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Television series · Television studies · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration