{"product_id":"silence-screen-and-spectacle-rethinking-social-memory-in-the-age-of-information-9781782382805","title":"Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 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 School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the \u003cem\u003edesaparecidos\u003c\/em\u003e in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an extremely interesting collection of essays on a wide variety of memory practices from across the globe.”\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003e·  Jo Labanyi\u003c\/strong\u003e, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments   \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: SPECTACULAR MEMORY: MEMORY AND APPEARANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary’s House of Terror\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAmy Sodaro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRachel Daniell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNaomi Angel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: SCREENING ABSENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGY, AFFECT, AND MEMORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCecilia Sosa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLaliv Melamed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSamuel Tobin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: SILENCE AND MEMORY: ERASURES, STORYTELLING, AND KITSCH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTimothy J. McMillan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNicole Doerr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoanna Michlic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e 1989 as Collective Memory “Refolution”: East-Central Europe Confronts Memorial Silence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan C. Pearce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information and New Media\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLindsey A. 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