The Media of Testimony

Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-47320-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3115 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, S.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Media of Testimony 2. Literary Autobiography and the Stories that Can't be Told 3. Fragmented Auto/Biographies: Testifying with Many Voices 4. The Importance of 'Being There': Memorial Museums and Living the Past in the Present 5. Whose Memory Is It Anyway? Memorial Museums and Modes of Authority 6. Documentary Film: Being Moved by Memory Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Jones is Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her work focuses on the political, social and cultural processes of remembering state socialism in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (2011).