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Media, memory, and the First World War / David Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, David, 1945-
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 48.
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Memory--History.
- Memory.
- Motion pictures and literature.
- War and literature.
- World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic text (xii, 321 p.) : digital file.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
- Contents:
- Modern memory
- Mediated memory
- Oral memory and the anger of Achilleus
- Scripts of empire: remembering Virgil in Barometer rising
- Cinematic memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison
- "Spectral images": the double vision of Siegfried Sassoon
- Photographic memory: "a force of interruption" in The wars
- A play of light: dramatizing relativity in R.H. Thomson's The lost boys
- Electronic memory: "a new Homeric mode" on History Television
- Sound bytes in the archive and the museum
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612866968
- 9780773585331
- 0773585338
- 9781282866966
- 1282866966
- 9780773576520
- 0773576525
- OCLC:
- 923234779
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