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Wallace, Richard James (2017) "We might go into double act mode”: ‘professional recollectors’, rehearsed memory and its uses. Oral History, 45 (1). ISSN 0143-0955.
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Abstract
This article examines the issues that arise when interviewing subjects experienced in recounting their own histories. Brian Harrison has called such interviewees ‘professional recollectors’, and the article focuses on a single interview conducted with Glaswegian twin brothers John and Peter Douglas, both of whom had careers as cinema projectionists. The interview demonstrates some of the ways in which memory is structured into a ‘performance’, and the implications that this has for oral historians. Although the anecdotal aspects of the interview (and others like it) offer a highly constructed and rehearsed set of narratives, the article concludes that they are nevertheless useful historical sources because the anecdotal ‘set-ups’ frequently involve detailed accounts of the working life of the projectionists.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Oral history -- Methodology, Recollection (Psychology), Memory | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Oral History | ||||||
Publisher: | University of London, Royal Holloway | ||||||
ISSN: | 0143-0955 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 March 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 August 2017 | ||||||
Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) (AHRC) | ||||||
Grant number: | AH/L008033/1 | ||||||
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