Research Catalog

Title

War memory and popular culture : essays on modes of remembrance and commemoration / edited by Michael Keren and Holger H. Herwig.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keren, Michael.
• Herwig, Holger H.

Description

vi, 206 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• War in mass media
• War in art
• War and society
• Memorialization > Social aspects
• Collective memory > Social aspects
• War memorials > Social aspects
• Psychic trauma > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780786441419 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786441410 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008044943
• 40016387730

OCLC

• ocn263409130
• 263409130
• SCSB-5455213

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries