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Black Hauntography as Critical Memory: Visualizing Absent Infrastructures in Virtual Reality.
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Howard Journal of Communications . Mar2024, p1-16. 16p. 1 Illustration. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- AbstractIn this article, I consider the role of emerging digital media technologies in contexts where a scarcity of memory infrastructure contributes to the marginalization of historical figures, places, or events. To do so, I examine <italic>Red Summers</italic>, a collection of 360-degree virtual reality (360 VR) documentaries that bring to light the impact of domestic White supremacist terrorism on Black communities in incidents across the U.S. occurring between 1917 and 1921. I argue the series relies on a strategy of visual cultural production I deem <italic>Black hauntography</italic>, which capacities collective acts of critical memory by directing audience visions toward the multiple layers of infrastructural absences left in the aftermath of racial violence. I trace how the series produces a memory of loss which may mediate more truthful, inspired encounters with the weight of history, thereby operating as a critical memory infrastructure suitable for amending amnesiac relations to past injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10646175
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Howard Journal of Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176141207
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2326210