Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory
Title | Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | B. Trezise |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014-06-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137336226 |
Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural actors. It charts a series of memory sites that range from canonical museums and memorials, to practices enabled by the virtual terrain of Second Life, popular 'trauma TV' programs and radical theatre practice.
Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Title | Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Liedeke Plate |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0415811406 |
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles
Title | Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles PDF eBook |
Author | A. Reading |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-06-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137032723 |
If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.
World Cinema and Cultural Memory
Title | World Cinema and Cultural Memory PDF eBook |
Author | I. Hedges |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2015-04-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137465123 |
Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.
Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence
Title | Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Willis |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2021-11-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3030851028 |
This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested in both the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.
Photography, Music and Memory
Title | Photography, Music and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Pickering |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2015-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137441216 |
This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination.
Space and the Memories of Violence
Title | Space and the Memories of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Estela Schindel |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2014-11-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137380918 |
Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.