
The Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
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First comprehensive study on the musealization of video testimonies Its global outlook: The book considers the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness as a global assemblage and analyzes this phenomenon in memorial museums in Germany, Italy, the UK and Israel. The book takes on a meta perspective: While most books on testimony of the Holocaust analyse the testimonies of Holocaust survivors per se, the book looks at this very the phenomenon of recording and analyzing the testimonies - and of course at exhibiting them in museums. Its transdisciplinarity: the study uses insights from Holoc...
First comprehensive study on the musealization of video testimonies Its global outlook: The book considers the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness as a global assemblage and analyzes this phenomenon in memorial museums in Germany, Italy, the UK and Israel. The book takes on a meta perspective: While most books on testimony of the Holocaust analyse the testimonies of Holocaust survivors per se, the book looks at this very the phenomenon of recording and analyzing the testimonies - and of course at exhibiting them in museums. Its transdisciplinarity: the study uses insights from Holocaust studies, cultural memory studies, museum studies and semiotics to analyze the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness