Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original history of memory, David Williams shows how classic Great War literature, including work by Remarque, Owen, Sassoon, and Harrison, was symptomatic of a cultural crisis brought on by the advent of cinema. He argues that images from Geoffrey Malins' hugely popular war film The Battle of the Somme (1916) collapsed social, temporal, and spatial boundaries, giving film a new cultural legitimacy, while the appearance of writings based on cinematic forms of remembering marked a crucial transition from a verbal to a visual culture. By contrast, today's digital media are laying the ground for a return to Homeric memory, whether in History Television, the digital Memory Project, or the interactive war museum.
Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
Review quotes
"Media, Memory, and the First World War is fascinating in its inter-disciplinarity - the author has a good grasp on a wide range of sources and raises excellent analytical points throughout the book." Jonathan Vance, University of Western Ontario
"A cutting-edge, intellectually ambitious, and thought-provoking analysis of the familiar Great War canon that raises fascinating new possibilities for interpreting these works." Mark Sheftall, Duke University
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Subjects
Littérature, World War, 1914-1918, History and criticism, Cinéma et littérature, Guerre et littérature, Modern Literature, Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918, Memory, History, Cinéma et guerre, Motion pictures and literature, Histoire, War and literature, Histoire et critique, Motion pictures and the war, Mémoire, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, World war, 1914-1918Times
20th century, 20e siècleEdition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Media, memory, and the First World War
2011., McGill-Queen's University Press
0773539077 9780773539075
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Media, memory, and the First World War
2009, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
0773535071 9780773535077
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?August 15, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
August 15, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
August 8, 2010 | Edited by 24.78.35.73 | Edited without comment. |
August 8, 2010 | Edited by 24.78.35.73 | Added new cover |
March 16, 2010 | Created by WorkBot | work found |