Haikali, J. and Dobson, S. (2023) Understanding Liminality and Intangible Difficult Heritage through Film. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 14 (3). pp. 402-414. ISSN 1756-7505
Abstract
The tourist's role in engaging with difficult heritage is described as a liminal one, in a state of ”limbo” outside of their ordinary lives, embracing the challenging historical narratives presented by difficult heritage while also maintaining a certain detachment. This liminality parallels the cinematic experience, where the audience temporarily resides in a similar state of in-betweenness, delving into imagined traumatic pasts from the safety of the present. This paper contributes both to literature on difficult heritage and to intangible cultural heritage to reveal the need for a more nuanced appreciation of intangible difficulty heritage when concerning genocide and war. It presents the 'Dealing with Trauma through Film' project, with a particular emphasis on its materiality within the context of the German-Namibian conflict and genocide, regarded as difficult heritage. Nelson's concept of liminality plays a pivotal role in understanding the dynamic between the film audience and the experience of the actors involved. The primary focus here is on the production of the German movie 'Der Vermessene Mensch' (The Measures of Men and outlines the intricate representation of intangible aspects of difficult heritage related to conflict through the medium of film.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | intangible cultural heritage; difficult heritage; memorial; film |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2024 16:35 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2024 16:35 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17567... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17567505.2023.2267272 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:207181 |
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