Media and Memory in New Shanghai Western Performances of Futures Past

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Info autore

Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the co-editor of Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (with A. Jansson, 2009) and the author of numerous articles on media space, mobilities and memory. She is currently working on a project on the televisual memory of 9/11 in Sweden, and on the existential dimensions of the commemoration of mediated trauma.

Riassunto

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A Lagerkvist, A. Lagerkvist, Amanda Lagerkvist
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 14.01.2014
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Scienze della comunicazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia
• EAN: 9781349436873
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43687-3
• Numero di pagine: 204
• Serie: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies; Palgrave MacMillan Memory Stud; Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Categorie: B, Media Studies, Sociology, Communication, Historiography, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Media and Communication, Media Research, Memory Studies, cognitive psychology, Media Sociology, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, media;memory;production;media research