‘I Just Feel It’s Important to Know Exactly What he Went Through’: In Their Footsteps and The Role of Emotions in Australian Television History
‘I Just Feel It’s Important to Know Exactly What he Went Through’: In Their Footsteps and The Role of Emotions in Australian Television History
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“我只是觉得准确地了解他所经历的事情很重要”：追寻他们的足迹以及情感在澳大利亚电视史上的作用
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Michelle Arrow
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《他们的足迹》（In Their Footsteps，2011）是一档澳大利亚电视历史节目，节目中人们追溯了曾在战争中服役的祖先的“足迹”。就像英国的家谱探索节目《你以为你是谁？》 《他们的足迹》的前提是我们可以用经验和情感的方式来理解过去。它通过祖先参与澳大利亚军事活动，强调了当今个人与更大的国家历史之间的联系。澳大利亚对其民族历史的解释最近成为激烈的政治化辩论的主题，而该计划的出现正值澳大利亚历史学家对民族主义军事纪念活动的死灰复燃表示担忧之际。一些历史学家对这种对澳大利亚军事历史的情感依恋表示怀疑，认为这些依恋是由沙文主义政治文化产生的。电视历史在情感语境中发挥作用，在这些辩论中通常被忽视。本文认为，了解电视历史对于理解军事历史对当代澳大利亚人的意义至关重要。对《跟随他们的脚步》的仔细分析表明，电视历史的深刻情感模式提供了一种复杂而细致的历史理解形式。这样的分析可以帮助我们更好地理解军事史的当代魅力。
In Their Footsteps (2011) was an Australian television history program in which individuals retraced the ‘footsteps’ of ancestors who had served in war. Like the British genealogical quest program Who Do You Think You Are? In Their Footsteps was premised on the idea that we can understand the past in experiential and emotional terms. It stressed the connections between present-day individuals and a larger national history through their ancestor’s participation in Australian military engagements. Australia’s interpretation of its national past has recently been the subject of heated, politicized debate, and this program appeared at a time when Australian historians were expressing concern at a resurgence in nationalist military commemoration. Some historians regarded this affective attachment to Australia’s military past with suspicion, arguing that these attachments were produced by a jingoistic political culture. Television histories, which operate in an affective register, are usually neglected in these debates. This article argues that understanding television history is essential to grasping what military history means to contemporary Australians. A close analysis of In Their Footsteps demonstrates the ways that the deeply affective mode of television history offers a complex and nuanced form of historical understanding. Such analysis can help us better understand the contemporary appeal of military history.