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Mediating Memory in the Museum : Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137352644
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 069
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Museum - Memory - Medium -- 1 A New Type of Museum? -- 2 Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crises -- 3 Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? -- 4 Media Frameworks of Remembering -- 5 Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of' Secondary Witnessing' -- 6 Empathy and Its Limits in the Museum -- 7 Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites -- Part II: The Deaths of Others: Representing Trauma in War Museums -- 8 Sites of Trauma -- 9 Icons of Trauma -- Part III: Screen Memories and the 'Moving' Image: Empathy and Projection in ISM, Liverpool and IWM North, Manchester -- 10 The Politics of Empathy -- 11 Testimonial Video Installation -- 12 Middle Passage Installation -- 13 The Big Picture in IWM (North) -- 14 Guilt, Grief and Empathy -- Part IV: The Paradoxes of Nostalgia in Museums and Heritage Sites -- 15 (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford -- 16 The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street -- 17 Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace -- 18 Ostalgie - Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum -- Part V: Uncanny Objects, Uncanny Technologies -- 19 Phantasmagoria and Its Spectres in the Museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Museum - Memory - Medium -- 1 A New Type of Museum? -- 2 Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crises -- 3 Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? -- 4 Media Frameworks of Remembering -- 5 Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of' Secondary Witnessing' -- 6 Empathy and Its Limits in the Museum -- 7 Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites -- Part II: The Deaths of Others: Representing Trauma in War Museums -- 8 Sites of Trauma -- 9 Icons of Trauma -- Part III: Screen Memories and the 'Moving' Image: Empathy and Projection in ISM, Liverpool and IWM North, Manchester -- 10 The Politics of Empathy -- 11 Testimonial Video Installation -- 12 Middle Passage Installation -- 13 The Big Picture in IWM (North) -- 14 Guilt, Grief and Empathy -- Part IV: The Paradoxes of Nostalgia in Museums and Heritage Sites -- 15 (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford -- 16 The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street -- 17 Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace -- 18 Ostalgie - Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum -- Part V: Uncanny Objects, Uncanny Technologies -- 19 Phantasmagoria and Its Spectres in the Museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures.

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