| Description |
vi, 206 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Michael Keren -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 |
| Summary |
"This work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemoration while centering around fundamental question of whether these new forms of memorial are meant to encourage the remembering or forgetting of the experience of war, as well as what implications this process may have for the continuation of the modern nation state"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Social aspects.
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Memorialization -- Social aspects.
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Psychic trauma -- Social aspects.
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War and society.
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War in art.
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War in mass media.
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War memorials -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Herwig, Holger H.
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Keren, Michael.
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| LC no. |
2008044943 |
| ISBN |
0786441410 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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9780786441419 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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