Media, memory, and the First World War / / David Williams

• Autore: Williams David <1945->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic text (xii, 321 p.) : digital file
• Disciplina: 791.43/658
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Memory - History; Motion pictures and literature; War and literature; World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Modern memory -- Mediated memory -- Oral memory and the anger of Achilleus -- Scripts of empire: remembering Virgil in Barometer rising -- Cinematic memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison -- "Spectral images": the double vision of Siegfried Sassoon -- Photographic memory: "a force of interruption" in The wars -- A play of light: dramatizing relativity in R.H. Thomson's The lost boys -- Electronic memory: "a new Homeric mode" on History Television -- Sound bytes in the archive and the museum -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Media, memory, and the First World War
• ISBN: 0-7735-8533-8; 1-282-86696-6; 9786612866968; 0-7735-7652-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825255503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 48.