Materializing Memories

Susan Aasman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. As a media historian and active researcher, she has written extensively about the history of amateur media and the history of documentary filmmaking. Since 2012, she has served as the chief editor for the Dutch Journal for Media History. Andreas Fickers is Professor of Contemporary and Digital History at Luxembourg University, Luxembourg. His research ranges from transnational media history to the European history of technology and theory of digital history. He is the co-editor in chief of the open access online journal VIEW - European Journal of Television History and Culture and the author, most recently, of Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events (Palgrave, 2016).Joseph Wachelder is Associate Professor of History at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on interactions between science and culture, and his wide-ranging publication history has addressed issues in higher education, the popularization of science, colour and sense experience in art and science, and educational toys and games. He has previously held positions in Gewina (the Dutch Society for the History of Medicine, Mathematics, Science and Technology) and the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS).

• Table of Contents1. Introduction (eds.)Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers, Joseph WachelderPart I Dispositifs2. Amateur technologies of memory, devices and media, communication spaces, Roger Odin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France)3. Hybrid Histories: Historicizing the Home Movie Dispositif, Tim van der Heijden (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)4. The Emergence of Early Artists’ Video in Europe & the USA and its’ Relationship to Broadcast TV, Chris Meigh-Andrews (University of the West of England / University of Central Lancashire, UK)5. Materiality, Practices, Problematizations: What Kind of Dispositif Are Media? Markus Stauff (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)6. How to grasp historical media dispositifs in practice? Andreas Fickers (Université de Luxembourg, Luxembourg)Part II Generations7. Belated Screenings of Home Movies: Biographical Storytelling and Generational Referencing, Joseph Wachelder (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)8. The Social Construction of Generations in a Media Society: The Case of Postwar West Germany, Benjamin Möckel (Universität Köln, Germany)9. “Generation Channel 36”: Pirated VHS Tapes and Remembering the Polish People’s Republic in the Age of P2P Networks, Miroslaw Filiciak (University of Social Sciences and Humanities SWPS, Poland)10. Becoming YouTube’s Grandad: Media, Age, and Generation in a Virtual Community, Susan Aasman (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)Part III Amateurs11. Amateurs: Naïve Artists or Everyday Experts, Patrice Flichy (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)12. Charting Changing Production Practices: Testimonials of Moviemaking Enthusiasts, Ryan Shand (University of West Scotland, Glasgow, UK)13. Home Mode, Community Mode, Counter Mode: Three Functional Modalities for Coming to Terms with Amateur Media Practices, Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)14. ‘Something More’: the Analysis of Visual Gestalting in Amateur Films, Daniele Wecker (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)BibliographyIndex

By taking the perspectives of dispositifs, generations and amateurs, this volume is a significant and important contribution to the discussion about materializing memories. The chapters of this book open a new field of investigating the materialities of media.