War Memory and Popular Culture
Essays on Modes of Remembrance and Commemoration
Published on 26. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-7864-4141-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemoration while addressing the fundamental question of whether these new forms of memorial are meant to encourage the remembering or the forgetting of the experience of war, as well as what implications the process of commemoration may have for the continuation of the modern nation state.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
355 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-4141-9 (9780786441419)
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Persons
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.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
Michael Keren
PART I: THE POPULARIZATION OF WAR MEMORY: REMEMBERING OR FORGETTING?
Commemorating Jewish Martyrdom
Michael Keren
The Ninetieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme
Dan Todman
Popular Memory in Northern Ireland
Rebecca Lynn Graff-McRae
Manufacturing Memory at Gallipoli
Bruce C. Scates
Commemoration and Consumption in Normandy, 1945-1994
Sam Edwards
Nuclear War and Popular Culture
Arthur G. Neal
PART II: THE MEDIA OF WAR MEMORY: EROSION OF HEGEMONY?
The Cult of Heroic Death in Nazi Architecture
Holger H. Herwig
The Superhero Comic Book as War Memorial
Bart Beaty
The BBC's "People's War" Website
Lucy Noakes
Inscribing Narratives of Occupation in Israeli Popular Memory
Tamar Katriel
The Operation Victory Video Game
Janis L. Goldie
The Rwandan Genocide in Film
Kirsten McAllister
About the Contributors
Index
Introduction
Michael Keren
PART I: THE POPULARIZATION OF WAR MEMORY: REMEMBERING OR FORGETTING?
Commemorating Jewish Martyrdom
Michael Keren
The Ninetieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme
Dan Todman
Popular Memory in Northern Ireland
Rebecca Lynn Graff-McRae
Manufacturing Memory at Gallipoli
Bruce C. Scates
Commemoration and Consumption in Normandy, 1945-1994
Sam Edwards
Nuclear War and Popular Culture
Arthur G. Neal
PART II: THE MEDIA OF WAR MEMORY: EROSION OF HEGEMONY?
The Cult of Heroic Death in Nazi Architecture
Holger H. Herwig
The Superhero Comic Book as War Memorial
Bart Beaty
The BBC's "People's War" Website
Lucy Noakes
Inscribing Narratives of Occupation in Israeli Popular Memory
Tamar Katriel
The Operation Victory Video Game
Janis L. Goldie
The Rwandan Genocide in Film
Kirsten McAllister
About the Contributors
Index