War and memory in the twentieth century
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War and memory in the twentieth century
Berg, 1997
- : paper
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This unique and absorbing book looks at the ways in which images and memories of war have emerged and endured in the twentieth century. Through a number of studies by the leading experts in the field, ranging from the construction of memorials through to film and personal testimonies, the complex identities of war memories and their social, cultural and political significances are thoroughly discussed. War and Memory in the Twentieth Century explores differing ways in which memories of conflicts are constructed from a multitude of perspectives and representations, including: * the written and spoken word * cinematic and film images * photography * monuments and memorials * museums * rituals and public celebrationThe book also discusses how memories of war differ between nations and individuals, and between proximity and distance in time. Wide-ranging and original, individual essays cover topics such as Anne Frank, British war crimes, the Gulf War in British popular culture, German memory and identity, and popular film.
This truly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging book will be of interest to the general reader as well as students and academics of history, war and society, political science, cultural studies and media studies. Contributors include:Tony Kushner, Southampton University; David Cesarani, Southampton University; Bernice Archer, Essex University; Jane Leonard, Queens University, Belfast; Lucy Noakes, Sussex University; Margaretta Joly, Sussex University; Catherine Moriarty, Sussex University; Bill Kidd, Stirling University; Sue Harper, Portsmouth University; Martin Shaw, Sussex University; Jeffrey Walsh, Manchester Metropolitan University; Barry Doyle, Durham University; Gerd Knischewski, Portsmouth University.
Table of Contents
Contents: Martin Evans & Kenneth Lunn, Introduction -- HOLOCAUST AND WAR CRIMES TRIALS -- Tony Kushner, Anne Frank and the Liberal Imagination -- David Cesarani, Lacking in Conviction: British War Crimes Policy and National Memory of the Second World War -- ORAL TESTIMONIES -- Bernice Archer, A Low-Key Affair: Memories of Internment in the Far East during World War Two -- Jane Leonard, Facing the 'Finger of Scorn': Veterans' Memories of Ireland after the Great War -- Martin Evans, 'Algeria and Vietnam': Two Cases of Traumatised War Veterans -- MUSEUMS -- Lucy Noakes, Making Histories: Exploring the Blitz in London Museums in the 1990's -- Margaretta Joly, Love Letters vs. Letters Carved in Stone: Gender, Memory and the 'Forces Sweethearts' Exhibition -- MONUMENTS -- Catherine Moriarty, Private Grief and Public Remembrance: British First World War Memorials -- Bill Kidd, Memory and Commemoration of War in Lorraine, 1909-79 -- FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY -- Sue Harper, Popular Film, Popular Memory: the Case of the Second World War -- POPULAR MEMORY -- Martin Shaw, Past Wars and Present Conflict: From the Second World War -- Jeffrey Walsh, The Gulf War in British Popular Culture -- Barry Doyle, Religion, Politics and Remembrance: a Free Church Community and its Great War Dead -- Gerd Knischewski, German Memory and Identity
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