Erll / Rigney Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021738-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 264 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Media and Cultural Memory

This collection of essays brings together two major new developments in cultural memory studies: firstly, the shift away from static models of cultural memory, where the emphasis lies on cultural products, in the direction of more dynamic models where the emphasis lies instead on the cultural and social processes involved in the ongoing production of shared views of the past; and secondly, the growing interest in the role of the media, and their role beyond that of mere storage, within these dynamics. The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of “mediation” and “remediation”. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered? The essays of this collection focus on social, historical, religious, and artistic media-memories. The authors analyze the memory-making impact of news media, the mediation and remediation of lieux de mémoire, the medial representation of colonial and postcolonial, of Holocaust and Second World War memories, and finally the problematization of these very processes in artistic media forms, such as novels and movies.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erll, Astrid

Rigney, Ann

Weitere Mitwirkende

Basu, Laura

Bijl, Paulus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of Contents;7
3;Introduction: Cultural Memory and its Dynamics;9
4;Cultural Memory on the Move in Contemporary Travel Writing: W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn;23
5;I Forgot to Remember (to Forget): Personal Memories in Memento (2000) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004);39
6;Old, Eternal, and Future Light in the Dutch East Indies: Colonial Photographs and the History of the Globe;57
7;The Limits of Transference: Theories of Memory and Photography in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz;75
8;Digital Network Memory;99
9;Remembering across Time, Space, and Cultures: Premediation, Remediation and the “Indian Mutiny”;117
10;Towards a Memory Dispositif: Truth, Myth, and the Ned Kelly lieu de mémoire, 1890-1930;147
11;Remediation as a Moral Obligation: Authenticity, Memory, and Morality in Representations of Anne Frank;165
12;Performances, Souvenirs, and Music: The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria 1897;181
13;News Media and Historical Remembrance: Reporting on the Expulsion of Germans in Polish and German Magazines;195
14;Restitution and the Dynamics of Memory: A Neglected Trans-Generational Perspective;213
15;Literary Icons and the Religious Past in the Netherlands: Jan Wolkers and Gerard Reve;237
16;Backmatter;253

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Erll, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany; Ann Rigney, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.