Australian Television and Popular Memory
Funding: 2008: $62,000
2009: $60,000
2010: $50,000
2011: $50,000
2012: $50,000
Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Start year: 2008
Summary: Despite its importance to our everyday lives since the 1950s, there is no history of television's role in Australian popular culture. This project will develop a series of collaborative histories that focus upon the popular experience of television and in particular its role in forming national culture. The research will not only involve conventional academic sources, but also those connected with 'the people': memories, memorabilia, personal collections as well as the full range of popular and ephemeral publications which support the popular engagement with the medium. The project is the first to examine television's historical role in our national life.
Publications:
McKee, A & Dore, J 2014, 'Pro-Am curators of Australian television history: How is their practice different from that of professional television historians?', Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 159-171.
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McKee, A 2012, 'Australian television, popular memory and suburbia', International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 303-314.
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McKee, A 2011, 'Alternative primary sources for studying Australian television history : an annotated list of online private collections', Screening the past, vol. 32, pp. 1-14.
McKee, A 2011, 'YouTube versus the National Film and Sound Archive: Which Is the More Useful Resource for Historians of Australian Television?', Television & New Media, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 154-173.
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McKee, A 2009, 'IS Doctor Who Australian?', Media International Australia, vol. 132, no. 1, pp. 54-66.
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Keywords: Cultural history; Cultural studies; Media history; Media studies; Popular culture; Television studies; Television studies
FOR Codes: Communication and Media Studies