Digital Memories and Beloved Spaces: the DVD series ´The Malmö of my Heart´ and its Audience

  • Stigsdotter, Ingrid (PI)

Project: Research

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The popular Swedish DVD-series The Malmö of My Heart contains material from archives and private collections that have historically been inaccessible to most people. Digital technology has made it possible to distribute these historical images of the city of Malmö to a much wider audience. My audience research project revolves around interviews focussing on memories, places and feelings.

In recent years, digital technology has made it possible to distribute archival and private film materials that were previously accessible only to restricted audiences to a much wider range of film viewers. An interesting example is´The Malmö of My Heart´, a DVD series compiling historical footage of the city of Malmö, which has become very popular since the release of the first volume in
2005. Film scholars like Giuliana Bruno (1998) and Annette Kuhn (2002) have persuasively argued that there are important links between film viewing and our experiences of space, memory and emotion, but the question of how contemporary audiences use and make meaning of films like ´The Malmö of My Heart´, which portray a specific locality at different moments in its modern history from
both public and private perspectives, remains largely unexplored. In attempting to explore this issue, I expect to uncover new knowledge about the relationships between mature film audiences and new technology, between younger audiences and images of the past, and between real and filmic spaces, memories and emotions as experienced by a specific audience group.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2010/01/012013/12/31