General Information

Language

English.

Published

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2014.

Physical Description

viii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Freeman, Lindsey A.

Nienass, Benjamin.

Daniell, Rachel.

Subjects

Subject

Mass media and history.

Collective memory.

Memorialization.

Mass media > Technological innovations > Social aspects.

Information technology > Social aspects.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell.

Series

Remapping cultural history ; volume 14

Content

Part I. Spectacular memory: Memory and appearance in the age of information. Amy Sodaro: Haunted by the spectre of Communism: Spectacle and silence in Hungary's House of Terror. - Rachell Daniell: Making visible: Reflexive narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site. - Naomi Angel: The everyday as spectacle: Archival imagery and the work of reconciliation in Canada. - Part II. Screening absence: new technology, affect, and memory. - Cecilia Rosa: Viral affiliations: Facebook, queer kinship, and the memory of the disappeared in contemporary Argentina. - Laliv Melamed: Learning by heart: Humming, singing, memorizing in Israeli memorial videos. - Samuel Tobin: Arcade mode: Remembering, revisiting, and replaying the American Video Arcade. - Part III. Silence and memory: erasures, storytelling, and kitsch. -Timothy J. McMillan: Remembering forgetting: A monument to erasure at the University of North Carolina. - Nicole Derr: The power of conflicting memories in European transnational social movements. - Joanna B. Michlic: Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. The case of Poland. - Susan C. Pearce: 1989 as collective memory "Refolution": East-Central Europe confronts memorial silence. - Conclusion. Comments on memory, screen, and spectacle.

ISBN

9781782382805

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	302.23 FRE		Reference	-

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