Russell J. A. Kilbourn is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (2010).Eleanor Ty is a professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published on contemporary ethnic texts, and on 18th-century British women writers. She is the author of Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (2010) and co-editor, with Christl Verduyn, of Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (WLU Press, 2008).

• The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film, edited by Russell J.A. Kilbourn and Eleanor TyPart I Memory Studies: Theories, Changes, and Challenges1. Developments in Memory Studies and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Film Russell J.A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty 2. ""Joy in Repetition""; or, The Significance of Seriality in Processes of Memory and (Re-)Mediation Sabine Sielke 3. Hirsch, Sebald, and the Uses and Limits of Postmemory Kathy Behrendt Part II Literature and the Power of Cultural Memory/Memorializing4. British Propaganda and the Construction of Female Mourning in the First World War Sarah Henstra 5. ""Rhetorical Metatarsals"": Bone Memory in Dionne Brand's Ossuaries Tanis MacDonald 6. Mediation and Remediation in Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo John Dean Part III Recuperating Lives: Memory and Life Writing7. Resisting Holocaust Memory: Recuperating a Compromised Life Marlene Kadar 8. ""In Auschwitz There Is a Great House"": The Location of Memory and Identity in the Roma Porrajmos (Devouring) or Holocaust Sheelagh Russell-Brown 9. Autobiography and the Validation of Memory in Neil M. Gunns's The Atom of Delight K.J. Keir Part IV Cinematic Remediations: Memory and History10. La Jetée and 12 Monkeys: Memory and History at Odds Amresh Sinha 11. The Traces of ""A Half-Remembered Dream"": Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004), and the Memory Film Anders Bergstrom 12. ""You must remember this ..."": Watching Casablanca with Marc Augé Graeme Gilloch 13. The Cinema of Simulation: Hyper-Histories and (Un)Popular Memory in The Good German (2006) and Inglourious Basterds (2009) Stefan Sereda Part V Multi-Media Interventions: Television, Video, and Collective Memory14. The Heritage Minutes: Nostalgia, Nationalism, and Canadian Collective Memory Erin Peters 15. Disaster and Trauma in Rescue Me, Saving Grace, and Treme: Commercial Television's Contributions to Ideas about Memorials John McCullough 16. Creative Re-enactment in the Films and Videos of Omer Fast Kate Warren Works CitedAbout the ContributorsIndex

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