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Television and/as cultural remembrance Television and/as cultural remembrance
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Archive aesthetics and the times of television Archive aesthetics and the times of television
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Fashion, memory and time Fashion, memory and time
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Documenting fashion history on the BBC Documenting fashion history on the BBC
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Ready to Wear Ready to Wear
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British Style Genius British Style Genius
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Oh! You Pretty Things Oh! You Pretty Things
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Affective trans-temporal remembrance Affective trans-temporal remembrance
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Considering the futures of the fashion history documentary Considering the futures of the fashion history documentary
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References References
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7 Documenting fashion history: television and the temporalities of cultural remembrance
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Published:February 2023
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Abstract
Rather than mere exercises in nostalgia and historical escapism, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s forays into fashion history have invariably forged connections between modern-day viewers and Britain’s past. Multi-part documentary series have selected, reanimated and repackaged fashion history into mass-mediated acts of cultural remembrance that resonate with the contemporary cultural landscape, transplanting memories across generations and geographies, projecting the past onto the present and vice versa. This chapter analyses three fashion history series broadcast by the BBC between 1999 and 2014 and reveals the genre’s ability to mediate a uniquely affective engagement with cultural memory due to fashion’s unparalleled relationship to the body. Drawing on Alison Landsberg’s theory of ‘prosthetic memory’, Jihane Dyer proposes that the distinct temporalities emerging from the history documentary format and the presentation of clothing enable modern viewers to take on cultural memories that are not their own. By theorising the fashion history documentary as a specific technology of cultural remembrance, Dyer explores how the study of fashion and material culture may introduce new perspectives for documentary makers, scholars and other cultural memory projects.
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