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

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetto topico: Mass media and history; Collective memory; Memorialization; Mass media - Technological innovations - Social aspects; Information technology - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FreemanLindsey A NienassBenjamin DaniellRachel
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Silence, screen, and spectacle
• ISBN: 1-78533-355-0; 1-78238-281-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464324903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Remapping cultural history ; ; v. 14.