Virtual Holocaust Memory

Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Interactive Video Testimony


• Chapter One: Entering Dimensions in Testimony


• Chapter Two: Ghosting the Museum


• Chapter Three: Witness in the Light Stage


• Part II: Reading the Virtual


• Chapter Four: Virtual Landscapes


• Chapter Five: The Virtual Anne Frank


• Chapter Six: The Topography of Terror and Resistance to the Virtual


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Matthew Boswell is the Programme Manager of Media Cymru: a consortium of film and television companies, universities, and public bodies driving sustainable growth in the Welsh media sector. He is the author of Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film (2012).

Antony Rowland has published nine books, including Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry (2022), The Future of Testimony (co-edited with Jane Kilby) (2014) and Holocaust Poetry (2005). He received an Eric Gregory award from the Society of Authors in 2000 and is currently a member of the Higher Education Committee for the English Association.

Summary

Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory.

Additional text

Virtual Holocaust Memory explores the most significant methodological developments in Holocaust heritage and pedagogy at the present time.

Product details

• Authors: Boswell , Rowland , Matthew Boswell, Matthew (Programme Manager Boswell, Boswell Matthew, Antony Rowland, Antony (Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry Rowland, Rowland Antony
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2023
• EAN: 9780197645406
• ISBN: 978-0-19-764540-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, Television, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Films, cinema, Second World War, The Holocaust, Film, TV & radio, c 1940 to c 1949, Publishing and book trade, publishing industry, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust