5. Remediation: reappropriations in digital media and in the essay film
The example of Handsworth Songs (chapter 4.2) has shown how the remediation of archival footage can be a way to rework a colonial and Eurocentric perspective. Critical interrogations into the archive can create alternative and vernacular memories which might offer emancipatory potential instead of stabilising essen- tialist notions of belonging. This perspective could allow cultural memory studies to get away from essentialising concepts of cultural or transcultural memory as based on the notions of container cultures.
In this chapter I will take a closer look at the remediation of the Windrush- footage and the ways it is being reappropriated. In what ways can archival footage ...
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