Del 14 i serien Remapping Cultural History

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvLindsey A. Freeman,Benjamin Nienass,Rachel Daniell

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In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-02-01
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRemapping Cultural History
Antal sidor260
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785333552

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments IntroductionLindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel DaniellPART I: SPECTACULAR MEMORY: MEMORY AND APPEARANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATIONChapter 1. Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary’s House of TerrorAmy SodaroChapter 2. Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic SiteRachel DaniellChapter 3. The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in CanadaNaomi AngelPART II: SCREENING ABSENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGY, AFFECT, AND MEMORYChapter 4. Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary ArgentinaCecilia SosaChapter 5. Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial VideosLaliv MelamedChapter 6. Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video ArcadeSamuel TobinPART III: SILENCE AND MEMORY: ERASURES, STORYTELLING, AND KITSCHChapter 7. Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North CarolinaTimothy J. McMillanChapter 8. The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social MovementsNicole DoerrChapter 9. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of PolandJoanna MichlicChapter 10. 1989 as Collective Memory “Refolution”: East-Central Europe Confronts Memorial SilenceSusan C. PearceConclusion: Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information and New MediaLindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel DaniellList of Contributors