| Description |
xvi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Remembering Memory: Culture, Tradition, and the Memory Problem -- Ch. 2. Inscribing Memory: Iconic Paradigms for Holocaust Remembrance -- Ch. 3. Framing Memory: Videotestimonies and the Transmission of Holocaust Remembrance -- Ch. 4. Mediating Memory: Holocaust Museums and the Display of Remembrance -- Ch. 5. Performing Memory: Tourism, Pilgrimage, and the Ritual Appropriation of the Past -- Conclusion. Remember Forgetting / Forget Remembering |
| Summary |
"This book offers a close and critical analysis of a range of cultural activities that mediate the Holocaust for a public increasingly distant from the events of World War II. Oren Baruch Stier argues that the manner in which those events are committed to memory, coupled with the fervent dedication to memory exhibited by many people and institutions, produces distinct memorial mediations of the Shoah." "In the end, Stier asks what role forgetting can and does play in the memorial landscape, demonstrating how critical attention to our memorial investments, and to the mechanics and media of memory's construction and transmission, can uncover what is both gained and lost in these commitments."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Memory.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
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Holocaust memorials.
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| LC no. |
2003005062 |
| ISBN |
1558494081 cloth alkaline paper |
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