Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of mediation and remediation . The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered?
Synopsis
Im Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedachtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinar ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhaltnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die 'neuen' digitalen Medien, Intermedialitat, Transmedialitat und Remediation sowie die sozialen, zunehmend transnationalen und transkulturellen, Kontexte der mediatisierten Erinnerung gehoren zu denForschungsinteressen der Reihe. Ziel ist es, eine internationale Plattform fur die interdisziplinare Medien- und Gedachtnisforschung zu schaffen. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden im
peer review Verfahren durch externe Experten begutachtet.
Den Herausgebern, Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main) und Ansgar Nunning (Justus-Liebig-Universitat Gieen) ist ein internationaler Beirat aus renommierten Wissenschaftlern assoziiert:
- Aleida Assmann (Universitat Konstanz)
- Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
- Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
- Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- Udo Hebel (Universitat Regensburg)
- Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)
- Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University)
- Alison Landsberg (George Mason University)
- Claus Leggewie (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
- Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia)
- Susannah Radstone (University of South Australia)
- Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
- Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois)
- Werner Sollors (Harvard University)
- Frederic Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)
- Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
Synopsis
This collection of essays brings together two major new developments in cultural memory studies: firstly, the shift away from static models of cultural memory, where the emphasis lies on cultural products, in the direction of more dynamic models where the emphasis lies instead on the cultural and social processes involved in the ongoing production of shared views of the past; and secondly, the growing interest in the role of the media, and their role beyond that of mere storage, within these dynamics.
The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of "mediation" and "remediation". The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered?
The essays of this collection focus on social, historical, religious, and artistic media-memories. The authors analyze the memory-making impact of news media, the mediation and remediation of lieux de m moire, the medial representation of colonial and postcolonial, of Holocaust and Second World War memories, and finally the problematization of these very processes in artistic media forms, such as novels and movies.