Full Description
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.
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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
