Victory Banner Over the Reichstag

Jeremy Hicks is senior lecturer in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Poetics of Skaz and Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film.

Centering on the concept of ‘authoritarian repetition,’ this remarkable study of the ritualization of historical memory constitutes a significant contribution to the growing field of memory studies.