Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information(14 Remapping Cultural History)

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information(14 Remapping Cultural History)


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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.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments    Introduction Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell PART I: SPECTACULAR MEMORY: MEMORY AND APPEARANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION Chapter 1. Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary’s House of Terror Amy Sodaro Chapter 2. Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site Rachel Daniell Chapter 3. The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel PART II: SCREENING ABSENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGY, AFFECT, AND MEMORY Chapter 4. Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina Cecilia Sosa Chapter 5. Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos Laliv Melamed Chapter 6. Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade Samuel Tobin PART III: SILENCE AND MEMORY: ERASURES, STORYTELLING, AND KITSCH Chapter 7. Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina Timothy J. McMillan Chapter 8. The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements Nicole Doerr Chapter 9. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland Joanna Michlic Chapter 10. 1989 as Collective Memory “Refolution”: East-Central Europe Confronts Memorial Silence Susan C. Pearce Conclusion: Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information and New Media Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell List of Contributors

About the Author :
Lindsey A. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia and a co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures from Poe to Punk.

Review :
“This is an extremely interesting collection of essays on a wide variety of memory practices from across the globe.”  ·  Jo Labanyi, New York University


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  • ISBN-13: 9781782382805
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1782382801
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 14 Remapping Cultural History
  • Weight: 517 gr


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