The witness as object : video testimony in memorial museums / / Steffi De Jong

• Autore: Jong Steffi de <1984->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.5318075
• Soggetto topico: Video tapes in historiography; Oral history; Historical museums - Exhibitions; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Personal narratives; Collective memory; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography; Holocaust survivors - Interviews - Historiography
• Soggetto non controllato: video exhibits; testimony; public memory; public history; Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; Imperial War Museum; The Holocaust; Yad Vashem Archive
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.
• Altri titoli varianti: The witness as object : video testimony in Holocaust museums
• Titolo autorizzato: The witness as object
• ISBN: 1-78533-644-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910269348303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Museums and collections ; ; Volume 10.