Virtual Holocaust memory / Matthew Boswell and Antony Rowland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boswell, Matthew, 1979- author.

Rowland, Antony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in mass media.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Electronic information resources.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust memorials--Interpretive programs--Moral and ethical aspects.

Holocaust memorials.

Memorialization--Moral and ethical aspects.

Memorialization.

Electronic information resources.

Physical Description:

291 pages illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity: now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory. The study considers a range of projects that are being developed by museums, archives, businesses, and educational organizations in the USA and Europe, including interactive video testimony, Virtual Reality films, Augmented Reality apps, museum installations, and online exhibitions. Drawing on an original conceptual framework that incorporates connective memory, palimpsestic testimony, and a notion of 'truthfulness' first applied to testimonial writing by the survivor Charlotte Delbo, this groundbreaking book argues that the value of virtual Holocaust memory that is to say its truthfulness will ultimately come to rest on the connections that it establishes across a complex set of subject positions. These range from 'new bystanders', who encounter Holocaust memory from a position of relative safety, to the traumatized victims whose extreme physical and psychological experiences made communicating so difficult in the first place"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Entering Dimensions in Testimony

Ghosting the Museum

Witness in the Light Stage

Virtual Landscapes

The Virtual Anne Frank

The Topography of Terror and Resistance to the Virtual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Boswell, Matthew, 1979- Virtual Holocaust memory

ISBN:

9780197645390

0197645399

9780197645406

0197645402

OCLC:

1338228612