Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349365746
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
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.Pušnik Impossible Histories: Violence, Identity, and Memory in Columbian Visual Arts; M.Cabrera Notes Bibliography Index