Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture - Couverture souple

Landsberg, Alison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231129270 ISBN 13 : 9780231129275

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Instead of compartmentalizing American experience, the technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender to share collective memories--to assimilate as personal experience historical events through which they themselves did not live. That's the provocative argument of this book, which examines the formation and potential of privately felt public memories. Alison Landsberg argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The result is a new form of public cultural memory--"prosthetic" memory--that awakens the potential in American society for increased social responsibility and political alliances that transcend the essentialism and ethnic particularism of contemporary identity politics.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Prosthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories -- to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical events through which they themselves did not live.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0231129270
• ISBN 13: 9780231129275
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240