By Joanne Garde-Hansen
How can we depend upon media for remembering? In exploring the advanced ways in which media converge to aid our wish to seize, shop and retrieve thoughts, this textbook deals analyses of representations of memorable occasions, media instruments for remembering and forgetting, media applied sciences for archiving and the function of media manufacturers in making memories.Theories of reminiscence and media are coated along an available variety of case reports concentrating on reminiscence relating to radio, tv, pop tune, famous person, electronic media and cell phones. Ethnographic and creation tradition study, together with interviews with contributors of the general public and execs, is usually incorporated. providing a finished advent to the connections and disconnections within the research of media and reminiscence, this can be definitely the right textbook for media experiences students.Key Features:* offers an intensive and specific evaluate of key writers, theories and debates* Case experiences enhance the textual content, delivering cutting edge techniques and insights on technique * Covers various 'old' and 'new' media: from radio, tv, movie, images, electronic media, cell phones and well known track* Explores discourses, varieties and practices of media and reminiscence with energetic studying workouts that interact readers
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Like Nora, he too was interested in the relationship and tensions between history and memory. He offers the reader in History and Memory a section devoted to a longitudinal approach to the study of memory from an ancient focus upon orality, to later conflicts with ‘written’ history, leading up to contemporary media discourses that pose challenges to history as they influence the memories that history relies upon. Le Goff articulates the relationship between history and memory with a focus upon myth, testimony, witnessing, living memory, orality and experience that all to some extent pose a threat to the written word of historians.
With whom we have a relation at this moment’ in time (1992: 52). g. indd 37 25/05/2011 15:21 38 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND can be placed within many frameworks’ (1992: 52). This can only be activated within a collective context: memorial ceremonies, family reunions, funerals, war, and commemorative practices for example (see Schwarz 1982; Zerubavel 1997; Hodgkin and Radstone 2006). Thus mediated events such as celebrity deaths (Kitch 2005), assassinations (Dayan and Katz 1992), funerals (Kitch and Hume 2008), anniversaries of tragedies (Sturken 2007), media representations of conflict (Hoskins 2004a) and the Holocaust (Zelizer 1998) all provide key investigations of media and collective memory.
The impact of Schindler’s List seemed to mark a point in the mid-1990s where media scholars really turned their attention to the power of media to manufacture memory (see Zelizer 1997). As the title of Loshitzky’s collection Spielberg’s Holocaust (1997) suggests, memories belonged to Hollywood and this could not go without critique. Clearly, ‘people constantly transform the recollections they produce’ (Zelizer 1995: 216), both in their minds and through media. Yet Huyssen counters that ‘we know how slippery and unreliable personal memory can be: always affected by forgetting and denial, repression and trauma, it, more often than not, serves the need to rationalize and maintain power’ (Huyssen 1995: 249).