Of "Diminishing Memories" and "Old Places": Singaporean Films and the Work of Archiving Landscape

dc.contributor.authorGaik Cheng Khooen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-27T15:39:49Z
dc.date.available2014-10-27T15:39:49Z
dc.date.issued2013-03-??zh_TW
dc.description.abstractThe Singapore socio-cultural and historical landscape has undergone such rapid development and constant change that it has spurred a strong interest in heritage and nostalgia. This paper considers the role of digital independent Singaporean documentaries as part of "an ecology of associated hypomnesic milieus" (Bernard Stiegler), more specifically their role in archiving the disappearing and disappeared Singaporean landscape. This ecology of memory consists of blogs, social networking sites, and other uses of digital technology and the Internet. The personal stories found here include those of growing up in Singapore as late as the 1980s, and assert a sense of continuity and belonging, an affective experience derived from occupying Singapore’s past. I suggest that rather than merely documenting, archiving, and recreating the past and present, some of these nostalgia projects in effect act as premature archives, mourning a future loss and farewelling the present. But can nostalgia be productive? In what ways and for whom?en_US
dc.identifier48BA98A1-7ABC-C29D-B2DE-D3721EB061E0zh_TW
dc.identifier.urihttp://rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/handle/20.500.12235/23357
dc.language英文zh_TW
dc.publisher英語學系zh_tw
dc.relation39(1),31-52zh_TW
dc.relation.ispartof同心圓:文學與文化研究zh_tw
dc.subject.otherheritageen_US
dc.subject.otherSingapore documentariesen_US
dc.subject.othernostalgiaen_US
dc.subject.othermemoryen_US
dc.subject.otherplace and identityen_US
dc.titleOf "Diminishing Memories" and "Old Places": Singaporean Films and the Work of Archiving Landscapezh-tw

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