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‘A Faithful Steward of these Values’: The Valorisation of a Translocated German Sound Collection
No full textThis paper traces the journey of a collection of German sound recordings to its current home at the British Library and examines how changing perceptions of the collection’s value in the eyes of its holders have influenced its preservation. Initially founded as a Weimar-era radio repository, the collection was then adopted as a means of recording the early years of National Socialism before being seized by British troops in 1945 and submitted as possible evidence for prosecutors at Nuremberg. It was then used as a resource for post-war BBC broadcasting before passing into British sound archives. The collection has passed through multiple institutions and has been re-evaluated by generations of broadcasters, civil servants and archivists, each time posing different questions as to the legal, historical, national and entertainment value of such recordings, providing a case study of how archival value is determined by the context in which the objects are assessed
An Invitation to Conversation: Photographs in Audience Studies of Film and Video
No full textBook review of: Lies Van de Vijver, Guy Dupont and Roel Vande Winkel, Gent Filmstad: Cinema’s en filmaffiches, 1938–1961 (Antwerpen/Amsterdam: Houtekiet, 2021), 278 pp., ISBN 978-90-8924-994-4 and Gyz La Rivière, Home Video: Videotheken & Video in Groot-Rotterdam (Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers, 2021), 432 pp., ISBN 978-94-6208-663-0
The News in Pictures. Press Photographs and Illustrations in Twentieth-Century Neapolitan Archives
No full textThe archives discussed in this paper are private photo agencies active in Naples for the most between the 1920s and 1940s, and relatively unknown at an international level. The enormous wealth of images still preserved in some of these archives, named after their founders (Beuf, Parisio, Troncone and Carbone), is now being indexed and digitised. These agencies worked for the major city newspapers (and not only), thus producing photographs to be printed and spread on a large scale
Editorial
No full textThis special issue of VIEW aims to shine a light on television satire in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism and beyond. Satire has been studied as a vehicle for challenging political and religious power as well as established norms and values. Even more so, satire is powerful in challenging established (state) ideologies, values, beliefs, and conduct. Yet in the state socialist countries of the former Eastern Bloc, satire - including television satire - was also employed by the state apparatus to target ideological opponents. This issue looks into the complex and often subtle and contradictory ways in which satire has disputed the relations between television, audiences and power in this specific geopolitical region of Europe
The Audio Legacy of Finnish Radio: An Exploration of Key Factors in the Preservation of Radio Sound Collections
No full textIn this article, I chart the development of Finland’s national broadcaster Yleisradio Oy in its media historical context, with a focus on key factors and events that have affected the long-term preservation and archiving of radio and related sound recordings in Finland. In order to understand the historical development of sound archiving I propose to apply a framework comprising three main parts. I also propose that the archival history of recorded sound collections is best understood through a chronological approach that reveals sequential, often overlapping periods in the company’s historic timeline. Such periods of overlap are found with the use of lacquer discs in radio production long after the introduction of magnetic reel tapes in 1939, but also in the 1990s with the simultaneous use of analogue and digital technology. I conclude with an analysis of factors enabling and preventing long-term preservation of the national broadcaster’s audio heritage, with attention to the many ‘little things’ that have allowed the historical sounds of past radio to be available in the archive today
Roma, Race and Socially Engaged Television on the Fringes of Europe
No full textThis article contributes to the work of scholars of Eastern Europe who insist on the relevance of race and racism to the region. The text analyzes a contemporary Bulgarian documentary TV series, called Nichia Zemia (No Man’s Land) and its representation of Roma minorities. The study traces the connections between rising inequalities, poverty, and demographic change that accompany post-socialist neoliberalism and the portrayals of Roma as an external Other, criminals and a demographic threat. The text shows the limits of the concept of ethnicity and highlights the need for a systematic analysis of the role media play in the proliferation of racism in this part of the world
Cartoon Animals vs. Actual Russians: Russian Television and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
No full textDespite continual improvements in production and writing quality, live-action Russian series have fared poorly in the global market. While many deals have been struck, Western remakes of Russian series have failed to appear, and live-action programs have failed to find mainstream audiences outside of Russia. Russian animated series, on the other hand, have enjoyed global success. The success and failure of different types of Russian series in the global media market suggests that many of the central problems of cultural exchange remain. Issues related to cost and risk continue to impede the global transfer of live-action series and formats from Russia even as animated series have become the most widely viewed Russian media products in history
NarDis: Narrativizing Disruptive Media Events with the Media Suite’s Exploratory Search Tools
No full textOur 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, the Media Suite’s exploratory search tools can help to understand how ‘disruptive’ media events are constructed as narratives across media, and instilled with specific cultural-political meanings. This article presents the methodological insights of the research pilot, in order to explain how the existing features and functionalities of the Media Suite – specifically, its exploratory search tools – support such explorations. We discuss the challenges that we encountered during our research pilot, and identify a number of opportunities and recommendations for further Media Suite development
Involving Users in Infrastructure Development: Methodological Reflections From the Research Pilot Projects Using the CLARIAH Media Suite
No full textIn 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 testing of the Media Suite
Editorial: Race and TV in Europe. An Overdue Conversation
No full textThis special issue on race and European television will begin the work of documenting and understanding the many ways in which television has both perpetuated and critically interrogated racialized regimes in Europe and in European countries’ ongoing relationships to their postcolonial geopolitical spheres. We have a dual goal for this issue: to break the silence and begin to describe, both retroactively and with a look to the future, television’s specific roles in visualizing, naturalizing, subverting and silencing race in Europe; and to account for the enduring reluctance to do this work in the first place