ABSTRACT

This article makes use of history documentary films to examine mediated historical culture and memory narrated by media. It particularly focuses on transgenerational dimensions of memory in media representations – the idea of how collective memories are transmitted through media to a second generation of people who did not directly experience the actual events but who nonetheless have often been exposed to the traumatic tensions of the first generation. The article first asks how mediated memory provides different views on war in historical culture. Second, it discusses how the memory of war is negotiated in the contemporary institutional historical culture of a democracy. The article demonstrates that since the role of the state in public remembrance is no longer as clear-cut as before, at least in democratic countries, historical culture is a more appropriate and precise concept than either civil society or even public history for analysing the importance of memory in society. The article also confirms the notion that it is difficult, if not even impossible, to separate media-narrated memory into the collective and private spheres of life. The empirical body of research consists of three Finnish history documentary films on WWII screened or broadcast in 2017, when Finland celebrated its 100-year anniversary.

摘要

本文利用历史纪录片来考察媒介化的历史文化和媒体所讲述的记忆。它特别关注媒体表征中记忆的跨代维度——集体记忆如何通过媒体传递给第二代人的想法，这些人没有直接经历过实际事件，但他们仍然经常暴露于第一代人的创伤性紧张局势中一代。文章首先询问媒介记忆如何在历史文化中提供对战争的不同看法。其次，它讨论了如何在民主的当代制度历史文化中协商战争记忆。这篇文章表明，由于国家在公众记忆中的作用不再像以前那样明确，至少在民主国家，对于分析记忆在社会中的重要性，历史文化是比公民社会甚至公共历史更为恰当和精确的概念。这篇文章还证实了这样一种观点，即即使不是不可能，也很难将媒体叙述的记忆分为集体和私人生活领域。实证研究主体包括 2017 年芬兰庆祝建国 100 周年时放映或播放的三部关于二战的芬兰历史纪录片。