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1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Remapping Cultural History ; Volume 14
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Remapping cultural history ; v. 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information; Part I -- Spectacular Memory: Memory and Appearance in the Age of Information; Chapter 1 -- Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary's House of Terror; Chapter 2 -- Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site; Chapter 3 -- The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada; Part II -- Screening Absence: New Technology, Affect, and Memory |
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Chapter 4 -- Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary ArgentinaChapter 5 -- Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos; Chapter 6 -- Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade; Part III -- Silence and Memory: Erasures, Storytelling, and Kitsch; Chapter 7 -- Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina; Chapter 8 -- The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements |
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Chapter 9 -- Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Post-Communist Eastern EuropeChapter 10 -- 1989 as Collective Memory ""Refolution"": East-Central Europe Confonts Memorial Silence; Conclusion -- Comments on Silence, Screen, and Spectacle; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-inte. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media and history.
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Mass media and history. |
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Collective memory.
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Collective memory. |
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Memorialization.
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Memorialization. |
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Mass media -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Technological innovations. |
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Social aspects. |
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freeman, Lindsey A., editor.
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Nienass, Benjamin, editor.
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Daniell, Rachel, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Silence, screen, and spectacle |
| ISBN |
9781782382812 (electronic book) |
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178238281X (electronic book) |
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9781782382805 |
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