The Memory Effect

The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film
Herausgeber: Kilbourn, Russell J a; Ty, Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays on the status of memory-individual and collective, cultural and transcultural-in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory's representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781554589142
• ISBN-10: 1554589142
• Artikelnr.: 36957559

Autorenporträt

Russell J. A. Kilbourn is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (2010).Eleanor Ty is a professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published on contemporary ethnic texts, and on 18th-century British women writers. She is the author of Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (2010) and co-editor, with Christl Verduyn, of Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (WLU Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film, edited
by Russell J.A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty
Part I Memory Studies: Theories, Changes, and Challenges
1. Developments in Memory Studies and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century
Literature and Film Russell J.A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty
2. "Joy in Repetition"; or, The Significance of Seriality in Processes of
Memory and (Re-)Mediation Sabine Sielke
3. Hirsch, Sebald, and the Uses and Limits of Postmemory Kathy Behrendt
Part II Literature and the Power of Cultural Memory/Memorializing
4. British Propaganda and the Construction of Female Mourning in the First
World War Sarah Henstra
5. "Rhetorical Metatarsals": Bone Memory in Dionne Brand's Ossuaries
Tanis MacDonald
6. Mediation and Remediation in Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo John Dean
Part III Recuperating Lives: Memory and Life Writing
7. Resisting Holocaust Memory: Recuperating a Compromised Life Marlene
Kadar
8. "In Auschwitz There Is a Great House": The Location of Memory and
Identity in the Roma Porrajmos (Devouring) or Holocaust Sheelagh
Russell-Brown
9. Autobiography and the Validation of Memory in Neil M. Gunns's The Atom
of Delight K.J. Keir
Part IV Cinematic Remediations: Memory and History
10. La Jetée and 12 Monkeys: Memory and History at Odds Amresh Sinha
11. The Traces of "A Half-Remembered Dream": Christopher Nolan's Inception
(2010), Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004), and the Memory Film Anders Bergstrom
12. "You must remember this ...": Watching Casablanca with Marc Augé
Graeme Gilloch
13. The Cinema of Simulation: Hyper-Histories and (Un)Popular Memory in
The Good German (2006) and Inglourious Basterds (2009) Stefan Sereda
Part V Multi-Media Interventions: Television, Video, and Collective Memory
14. The Heritage Minutes: Nostalgia, Nationalism, and Canadian Collective
Memory Erin Peters
15. Disaster and Trauma in Rescue Me, Saving Grace, and Treme: Commercial
Television's Contributions to Ideas about Memorials John McCullough
16. Creative Re-enactment in the Films and Videos of Omer Fast Kate
Warren
Works Cited
About the Contributors
Index