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In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Technologies of Memory in the Arts: An Introduction; L.Plate & A.Smelik PART I: MEDIATING MEMORIES Tourists of History: Souvenirs, Architecture, and the Kitschification of Memory; M.Sturken Minimalism, Memory, and the Reflection of Absence; W.Weijers The Virtuality of Time: Memory in Science Fiction Films; A.Smelik PART II: MEMORY/COUNTER-MEMORY The Astonishing Return of Blake and Mortimer: Francophone Fantasies of Britain as Imperial Power and Retrospective Rewritings; A.Miller Writing Back Together: The Hidden Memories of Rochester and Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea ; N.Haliloglu Liquid Memories: Women's Rewriting in the Present; L.Plate PART III: RECALLING THE PAST The Matter and Meaning of Childhood through Objects; E.Wood The Force of Recalling: Pain in Visual Arts; M.Zarzycka Photographs that Forget: Contemporary Recyclings of the Hitler-Hoffmann Oratory Poses ; F.Guerin PART IV: UNSETTLING HISTORY Facing Forward with Found Footage: Displacing Colonial Footage in Documentaries and Video Art; J.Noordegraaf Mediated Popular Histories in Slovenia: Shaping Memories of the Past; M.Pusnik Impossible Histories: Violence, Identity, and Memory in Columbian Visual Arts; M.Cabrera Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
MARTA CABRERA teaches at Universidad Externado de Colombia
FRANCES GUERIN is Lecturer in the School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts at University of Kent, UK
NAGIHAN HALILOGLU is a doctoral student at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
ANN MILLER is Director of Studies for French at the University of Leicester, UK
JULIA NOORDEGRAAF is Assistant Professor in the department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
MARUSA PUSNIK is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
MARITA STURKEN is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Co-Director of the Visual Culture Program at New York University, USA
WOUTER WEIJERS teaches Modern and Contemporary Art at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
ELIZABETH WOOD is an Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA
MARTA ZARZYCKA teaches in the Women's Studies Department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Summary
In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs.
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'[This book] provide[s] clear evidence of the continuing importance of memory studies to the understanding of both modern culture in general and modern theatre and performance in particular.'
- Marvin Carlson, Project Muse
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'[This book] provide[s] clear evidence of the continuing importance of memory studies to the understanding of both modern culture in general and modern theatre and performance in particular.'
- Marvin Carlson, Project Muse
