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New Memory: Mediating history
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In this article, New Memory: Mediating history is used to describe the history of film, radio and television in the United States, with a focus on the New Memory system.Abstract:
(2001). New Memory: Mediating history. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 333-346.read more
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Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering.
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TL;DR: Memory is often embodied in objects, such as memorials, texts, talismans, images as mentioned in this paper, which are often perceived to contain memory within them or indeed to be synonymous with memory.
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The Modalities of Nostalgia
TL;DR: The authors argue that Nostalgia is a response to the experience of loss endemic in modernity and late modernity, and that its meaning and significance are multiple, and so should be seen as accommodating progressive, even utopian impulses as well as regressive stances and melancholic attitudes.
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Media, Memory, Metaphor: Remembering and the Connective Turn
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The Holocaust industry : reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering : with a new foreword and a new postscript
TL;DR: The authors concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket and that those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain can be easily identified and identified.
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Placing journalism inside memory — and memory studies
TL;DR: This paper argued that it is important for scholars to ask what it matters that certain memory stories are told in journalistic prose and format and are received by audiences as ''news'' and that journalism works within (not apart from) other cultural memory forms, and that it constructs memory not just with regard to discrete events, but across time and place.
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
TL;DR: In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity as discussed by the authors, and investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia.
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Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia
TL;DR: In a recent collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past as discussed by the authors.