M
Marita Sturken
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 64
Citations - 2699
Marita Sturken is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural memory & Politics. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2623 citations. Previous affiliations of Marita Sturken include University of Pennsylvania & University of Southern California.
Papers
More filters
Book
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Marita Sturken,Lisa Cartwright +1 more
TL;DR: The Global Flow of Visual Culture Glossary Index as mentioned in this paper is a glossary of visual culture glossaries that focus on images, power, and politics in the Mass Media and the Public Sphere.
Book
Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering
TL;DR: Sturken as mentioned in this paper argues that U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, arguing that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and American culture.
Book
Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
TL;DR: Sturken argues that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics.
Journal ArticleDOI
Memory, consumerism and media: Reflections on the emergence of the field:
TL;DR: In this paper, the emergence of the field of memory studies in relation to several areas of study: cultural studies, media studies, communication and visual culture, is discussed, and the key concepts of those fields are considered.