Frozen memories: unthawing Scott of the Antarctic in cultural memory

This article explores the staging of memory and death and the connotative differences within still photographs and film. It examines the tenses that can be inferred in reading photographs and film through examples drawn from representations of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13 and Captain...

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Published in:Visual Communication
Main Author: Barwell, Claire
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2007
Subjects:
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Communication
Antarctic
South Pole
The Antarctic
Antarc*
South pole
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357207081003
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1470357207081003
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Summary:This article explores the staging of memory and death and the connotative differences within still photographs and film. It examines the tenses that can be inferred in reading photographs and film through examples drawn from representations of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13 and Captain Scott's journey to the South Pole taken by Herbert Ponting, and in the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic.

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