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Serie: Cultural memories
PaperbackEngels9783034309875
14-6-2016
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034317665
30-9-2016
The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage intersected with existing political and social dynamics. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of urban communities in thirteen cities worldwide, countering many myths about the Cold War era. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034309370
23-4-2014
This innovative volume examines First World War commemoration in an international, multidisciplinary and comparative context, combining new studies of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific to illuminate the fluid and oft-contested relationships amongst nation, history and memory. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781803742472
30-1-2024
This is the first in-depth study of Spanish artist Juan Muñoz’s work in terms of the idea of silence. Drawing on a wealth of documents, this book shows how silence and memory defined and shaped his art, ultimately revealing how his art probes and reanimates the uncanny memory of Spain’s traumatic past. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781803743592
14-5-2024
How do we remember the past? And what do we forget? This part-history, part-memoir examines how Hungarians and Austrians living along their common border remember, distort, and forget episodes marking the tumultuous twentieth century, including world wars, the Holocaust, the Iron Curtain, the migration crisis and more. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789974041
21-1-2021
The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, exploring the ways that artists contributed to wartime culture as well as the ways in which wartime culture influenced artistic expressions. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781800799523
23-1-2024
Edgar Wind (1900–1971) was a cosmopolitan scholar who made important contributions to many disciplines, including philosophy, Renaissance art history and modern art criticism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788740142
20-11-2019
This book explores the Trevi Fountain through the prism of cultural memory to reveal the processes that make it so iconic and performative. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that includes imagery in art, literature, film, music and the e-Trevi of the internet, this volume looks at how memory travels between media. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789971491
1-6-2020
When Europe fell prey to totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the Slovene artist Tone Kralj expressed resistance through his paintings in Catholic churches on the Slovene–Italian ethnic border, which show Hitler and Mussolini as villainous Biblical characters. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788744782
17-5-2019
This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and postcolonial studies across literatures and media from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and intersections with Asia. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789979046
28-9-2021
Now maintained as a museum and memorial site, the former camp of Fossoli was a Nazi concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781800793897
30-5-2023
Camps and places of transit have great relevance in the contemporary age, from genocide to forced migration, prisoners of war to refugees of catastrophes. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788741347
20-12-2018
West vs East, antifascism vs fascism, capitalism vs communism: these are the symbolic boundaries that have divided Europe. Focusing on the Adriatic and central European regions, this collection of essays explores ruptures and continuities in memory cultures, commemorative practices and the varying politics of the past in European borderlands. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781787079786
28-11-2018
PaperbackEngels9781800791190
11-2-2022
This book explores how the Chilean «transition to democracy» has been narrated in film, focusing on the imaginative afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034309479
7-10-2013
Migrant Memories provides an innovative perspective on the power of cultural memory and the influence of cinema on the Italian diaspora in Britain. Based on extensive interviews with Southern Italian migrants and their children, this study offers a fresh understanding of the migrants’ journey from Italy to Britain since the early 1950s. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034319355
28-4-2017
What is a memory of the future? This book speculates on the connections between memory and futurity in a variety of fields, including counter-histories, women’s studies, science fiction, art and design, technology, philosophy and politics. Meer