Frozen memories: unthawing Scott of the Antarctic in cultural memory

• 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

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.