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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821694203321

Titolo

Silence, screen, and spectacle : rethinking social memory in the age of information and new media / / edited by Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78533-355-0

1-78238-281-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Remapping Cultural History ; ; Volume 14

Classificazione

AP 13800

Altri autori (Persone)

FreemanLindsey A

NienassBenjamin

DaniellRachel

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media and history

Collective memory

Memorialization

Mass media - Technological innovations - Social aspects

Information technology - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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