CCT314H5 Lecture Notes - Paradigm Shift, Alan J. Pakula, Protestantism
12 May 2013
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07 representing memories: can be read as ideological representations. They have a certain argument that underpins the way they work. Images like this such as riding up on jeeps, parading through the streets: celebrating a victory of france, england, etc. against the aggression of germany. For french, they believed that by surrendering, they are less brutal and saved lives. Americans believed that the french did not have a backbone. Post-world war ii photographs 1945-1959: wwii they are bombing, and there are still kids who keep on horsing around. They play in the rubble and clean if they can. There is an ideological statement that life will go on and the next generation will rebuild: rebuilding ideology of overcoming. These pictures present a dominant representational paradigm. A dominant representational paradigm" means the representation contains a certain vision of historical events based on the choices of the photographer based on his/her ethics not a pure historical record.
