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1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Memory, modernity, mass culture. -- Prosthetic memory. -- The prosthetic imagination: immigration narratives and the "melting down" of difference. -- Remembering slavery: childhood, desire, and the interpellative power of the past. -- America, the Holocaust, and the mass culture of memory: the "object" of remembering. -- Epilogue: Toward a radical practice of memory. |
| Summary |
Prosthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories -- to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical events through which they themselves did not live. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
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United States. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
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Community life -- United States.
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Community life. |
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Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Case studies.
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History. |
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Case studies.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Political aspects. |
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Political culture -- United States.
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Political culture. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
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Civilization. |
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1970- |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Politics and government. |
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1989- |
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Since 1970 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Landsberg, Alison. Prosthetic memory. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2003068814 |
| ISBN |
0231129262 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780231129268 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0231129270 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780231129275 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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023150313X (electronic book) |
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9780231503136 (electronic book) |
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