The Mnemonic Imagination

Remembering as Creative Practice
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-24336-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keightley, E.

Pickering, M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Outline of What Lies Ahead Memory and Experience The Mnemonic Imagination Personal and Popular Memory The Reclamation of Nostalgia The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining Creative Memory and Painful Pasts Coda Index

Über Autor(innen)

EMILY KEIGHTLEY is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She has published her research on time, memory and everyday life in a number of international journals. She is the editor of Time, Media and Modernity and is currently co-editing Research Methods for Memory Studies with Michael Pickering. She is also Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society.
MICHAEL PICKERING is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at Loughborough University, UK. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies. His most recent books include Researching Communications (2007); Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010).