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Animation and memory

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posted on 2023-06-09, 16:29 authored by Victoria Grace Walden
In Pixar’s Inside Out (Docter and Del Carmen, 2015), Joy and Sadness navigate around their host Riley’s long-term memory where coloured orbs representing different events in her past are stored on shelves. The film imagines memory as fixed content that can be recalled as needed. However, developments in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies now consider memory to be much more complex than this. Like the term realism discussed elsewhere in this volume, memory is a slippery thing – it is better understood as always in a state of becoming, as related to the present more than the past, and as a creative, networked process rather than as a simple transmission of historical data. After introducing some of the broad ideas related to contemporary studies of media and memory, this chapter focuses on the ways in which we can remember the past through and with animation, and how the form can represent memory, concentrating particularly on issues of trauma and witnessing, collective memory and identity, and nostalgia.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Pages

352.0

Book title

Animation Studies Reader

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781501332616

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  • Media and Film Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Editors

Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle, Nichola Dobson, Caroline Ruddell

Legacy Posted Date

2019-01-11

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-05-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-01-10

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