This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands war to uniquely offer multiple perspectives on a single remembering phenomenon. The study offers an analysis of the convergence, interconnectedness and interdependence of media and remembering, specifically the production, interpretation and negotiation of remembering in the media ecology. In so doing it not only examines the role of media in the formation and sustaining of collective memory but also the ways those who remember or are remembered in media texts become implicated in these processes.
1.Introduction.- 2.The Media and The Falklands.- 3.The Military Story: Multiple Identities, Subjectivity and Narrative Sense-Giving.- 4.The BBC Story: Identity and Memory Work as News Determinants.- 5.The Islanders story: Confused Identities, Interpellation and Subjugation.- 6.Media-Remembering: Power, Identity and Agency
Sarah Maltby is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Sussex University, UK.
This book provides original insights into the intersections of war, the military, subjectivity and identity in relation to memory, that reveal a much deeper understanding of the complex processes of remembering.
Anna Reading, Kings College, University of London, UK
Sarah Maltby, in this strikingly original study, brings a rare immediacy to how the media performs and the uses to which it is put in the crafting of national meaning and memory.
James Aulich, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
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