Mnemonic Imagination - Remembering As Creative Practice

Informationen zum Autor EMILY KEIGHTLEY is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She has published her research on time, memory and everyday life in a number of international journals. She is the editor of Time, Media and Modernity and is currently co-editing Research Methods for Memory Studies with Michael Pickering. She is also Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society. MICHAEL PICKERING is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010). Klappentext An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination. Zusammenfassung An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies! from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia! using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis An Outline of What Lies Ahead Memory and Experience The Mnemonic Imagination Personal and Popular Memory The Reclamation of Nostalgia The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining Creative Memory and Painful Pasts Coda Index

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An Outline of What Lies Ahead Memory and Experience The Mnemonic Imagination Personal and Popular Memory The Reclamation of Nostalgia The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining Creative Memory and Painful Pasts Coda Index

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• Authors: Keightley, E Keightley, E. Keightley, Emily Keightley, Emily Pickering Keightley, KEIGHTLEY EMILY PICKERING MICHAEL, M Pickering, M. Pickering, Michael Pickering
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2012
• EAN: 9780230243361
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24336-1
• No. of pages: 247
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies; Palgrave MacMillan Memory Stud; Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies; Palgrave MacMillan Memory Stud
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Communication, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Regional Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection