This collection of essays brings together two major new developments in cultural memory studies: firstly, the shift away from static models of cultural memory, where the emphasis lies on cultural products, in the direction of more dynamic models where the emphasis lies instead on the cultural and social processes involved in the ongoing production of shared views of the past; and secondly, the growing interest in the role of the media, and their role beyond that of mere storage, within these dynamics. The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of “mediation” and “remediation”. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered? The essays of this collection focus on social, historical, religious, and artistic media-memories. The authors analyze the memory-making impact of news media, the mediation and remediation of lieux de mémoire, the medial representation of colonial and postcolonial, of Holocaust and Second World War memories, and finally the problematization of these very processes in artistic media forms, such as novels and movies.
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The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories?
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"So profitiert der Leser sowohl als Einsteiger als auch als Experte, da die einzelnen Essays von einer gut verstandlichen Ebene ausgehend zu einer sehr spezifischen Ebene getrieben werden und so tiefe Einsichten - jeweils gut argumentiert - moglich sind."Jana Magdanz in: http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/12459http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/12459
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"So profitiert der Leser sowohl als Einsteiger als auch als Experte, da die einzelnen Essays von einer gut verständlichen Ebene ausgehend zu einer sehr spezifischen Ebene getrieben werden und so tiefe Einsichten – jeweils gut argumentiert – möglich sind."Jana Magdanz in: http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/12459http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/12459
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ISBN
9783110204445
Publisert
2009-07-15
Utgiver
Vendor
De Gruyter
Vekt
502 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
264

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Biographical note

Astrid Erll, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany; Ann Rigney, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.