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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ISBN
9783110217384
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
De Gruyter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok