War Memory and Popular Culture

Michael Keren is a professor of communications and Canada Research Chair in communication, culture and civil society at the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). He is the author or editor of numerous books on such topics as the media, politics and freedom of the press. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Holger H. Herwig is a professor of history and Canada Research Chair in military and strategic studies at the University of Calgary). He has written extensively about German military-diplomatic relations in the 20th century, and has taken part in several History Channel and Discovery Channel productions.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionMichael Keren      PART I: THE POPULARIZATION OF WAR MEMORY: REMEMBERING OR FORGETTING?Commemorating Jewish MartyrdomMichael Keren      The Ninetieth Anniversary of the Battle of the SommeDan Todman      Popular Memory in Northern IrelandRebecca Lynn Graff-McRae      Manufacturing Memory at GallipoliBruce C. Scates      Commemoration and Consumption in Normandy, 1945–1994Sam Edwards      Nuclear War and Popular CultureArthur G. Neal      PART II: THE MEDIA OF WAR MEMORY: EROSION OF HEGEMONY?The Cult of Heroic Death in Nazi ArchitectureHolger H. Herwig      The Superhero Comic Book as War MemorialBart Beaty      The BBC’s “People’s War” WebsiteLucy Noakes      Inscribing Narratives of Occupation in Israeli Popular MemoryTamar Katriel      The Operation Victory Video GameJanis L. Goldie      The Rwandan Genocide in FilmKirsten McAllister      About the Contributors      Index

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