Desire is social -- Utopian memory -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- 9/11 news coverage -- US military abuses at Abu Ghraib -- The Amish shootings -- Ground Zero -- Berlin and the Holocaust -- Trauma and consumption.
Summary
Presenting a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance, Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way.
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