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The man who mistook Marat for Sade: 'living' memory and the video archive

journal contribution
posted on 2014-06-01, 00:00 authored by Glenn D'Cruz
Digital video archives, which are growing at an exponential rate, will become increasingly important to Theatre History and Performance Studies, and questions of how scholars negotiate the relationships between memory, technology and performance events in theoretical and practical terms will become crucial. Indeed, there is already a considerable body of scholarly material on this topic. This article considers these questions with specific reference to the relationship between video records deposited in digital archives and human memory. First and foremost, this article raises questions about the authority of the archive and the ways in which archival technologies, in the words of Maaike Bleeker, 'transform how we remember, how our and others' memories are entangled in the here-and-now, and, in the end, even how we think and imagine'.

History

Journal

Australasian drama studies

Issue

64

Pagination

155 - 176

Publisher

La Trobe University, Theatre & Drama Program

Location

Bundoora, Vic.

ISSN

0810-4123

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, La Trobe University, Theatre & Drama Program