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This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemoration while addressing the fundamental question of whether these new forms of memorial are meant to encourage the remembering or the forgetting of the experience of war, as well as what implications the process of commemoration may have for the continuation of the modern nation state. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Author:   Michael Keren ,  Holger H. Herwig
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9780786441419

ISBN 10:   0786441410
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   26 January 2009
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction Michael Keren      PART I: THE POPULARIZATION OF WAR MEMORY: REMEMBERING OR FORGETTING? Commemorating Jewish Martyrdom Michael Keren      The Ninetieth Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme Dan Todman      Popular Memory in Northern Ireland Rebecca Lynn Graff-McRae      Manufacturing Memory at Gallipoli Bruce C. Scates      Commemoration and Consumption in Normandy, 1945–1994 Sam Edwards      Nuclear War and Popular Culture Arthur G. Neal      PART II: THE MEDIA OF WAR MEMORY: EROSION OF HEGEMONY? The Cult of Heroic Death in Nazi Architecture Holger H. Herwig      The Superhero Comic Book as War Memorial Bart Beaty      The BBC’s “People’s War” Website Lucy Noakes      Inscribing Narratives of Occupation in Israeli Popular Memory Tamar Katriel      The Operation Victory Video Game Janis L. Goldie      The Rwandan Genocide in Film Kirsten McAllister      About the Contributors      Index     

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Author Information

Michael Keren is a professor of communications and Canada Research Chair in communication, culture and civil society at the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). He is the author or editor of numerous books on such topics as the media, politics and freedom of the press. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Holger H. Herwig is a professor of history and Canada Research Chair in military and strategic studies at the University of Calgary). He has written extensively about German military-diplomatic relations in the 20th century, and has taken part in several History Channel and Discovery Channel productions.

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