Heritage Noire
Truth, history, and colonial anxiety inThe Blair Witch Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5884862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Morgan (0000-0001-9166-6980, corresponding author), Sally J Morgan |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-148 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527250120060178 |
| OpenAlex | W2064531567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
When watching the film The Blair Witch Project we seem to be witnessing through its clumsy, apparently uncrafted footage the unmediated documentation of 'reality' as it occurs. This article argues that the carefully crafted deceit of The Blair Witch Project may be understood as part of a subversive 'public history' project that uses modern history's own scientific motifs and methodologies against itself and challenges its basic tenets. If positive myths of the past are structured into what we tend to call heritage, i.e. shared narratives affirming a positive sense of self and region or nation, then this paper argues that The Blair Witch Project takes the same notion and subverts it, giving its chosen audience a dark and unsettling sense of its own history
Aesthetics · Art · Documentation · Literature · Media studies · Mythology · Narrative · Public history · Sociology · Witch · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Classics · Computer Science · History
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |