Tangled Memories

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-520-20620-5
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 375 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events.

Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a national wailing wall—one whose emphasis on the veterans and war dead has allowed the discourse of heroes, sacrifice, and honor to resurface at the same time that it is an implicit condemnation of war—is particularly compelling. The book also includes discussions of the Kennedy assassination, the Persian Gulf War, the Challenger explosion, and the Rodney King beating. While debunking the image of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken also shows how remembering itself is a form of forgetting, and how exclusion is a vital part of memory formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sturken, Marita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 Camera Images and National Meanings
2 The Wall and the Screen Memory:

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
3 Reenactment and the Making of History:

The Vietnam War as Docudrama
4 Spectacles of Memory and Amnesia:

Remembering the Persian Gulf War
5 AIDS and the Politics of Representation
6 Conversations with the Dead:

Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt
7 Bodies of Commemoration:

The Immune System and HIV

Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marita Sturken is Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.