Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

by Benjamin Nienass and Rachel Daniell

Book Overview

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785333550
• ISBN13: 9781785333552
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"