War Memory and Popular Culture: Essays on Modes of Remembrance and Commemoration
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...
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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.
Introduction Michael Keren Keren, Michael 1Pt. I The Popularization of War Memory: Remembering Or Forgetting?Commemorating Jewish Martyrdom Michael Keren Keren, Michael 9The Ninetieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme Dan Todman Todman, Dan 22Popular Memory in Northern Ireland Rebecca Lynn Graff-McRae Graff-McRae, Rebecca Lynn 41Manufacturing Memory at Gallipoli Bruce C. Scates Scates, Bruce C. 57Commemoration and Consumption in Normandy, 1945-1994 Sam Edwards Edwards, Sam 76Nuclear War and Popular Culture Arthur G. Neal Neal, Arthur G. 92Pt. II The Media of War Memory: Erosion of Hegemony?The Cult of Heroic Death in Nazi Architecture Holger H. Herwig Herwig, Holger H. 105The Superhero Comic Book as War Memorial Bart Beaty Beaty, Bart 120The BBC's "People's War" Website Lucy Noakes Noakes, Lucy 135Inscribing Narratives of Occupation in Israeli Popular Memory Tamar Katriel Katriel, Tamar 150The Operation Victory Video Game Janis L. Goldie Goldie, Janis L. 166The Rwandan Genocide in Film Kirsten McAllister McAllister, Kirsten 185About the Contributors 201Index 203
