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Author Arnold-de Simine, Silke, author.

Title Mediating memory in the museum : trauma, empathy, nostalgia / Silke Arnold-de Simine, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Contents PARTI: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM -- 1. A New Type of Museum? -- 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis -- 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? -- 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering -- 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' -- 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum -- 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites -- PARTII: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS -- 8. Sites of Trauma -- 9. Icons of Trauma -- PART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER -- 10. The Politics of Empathy -- 11. Testimonial Video Installation -- 12. Middle Passage Installation -- 13. The Big Picture in IWM North -- 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy -- PART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES -- 15. (Post- )Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford -- 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street -- 17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: comuse d'Alsace -- 18. Ostalgie : Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum -- PART V: UNCANNY OBJECTS, UNCANNY TECHNOLOGIES -- 19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the Museum
Summary "Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research which is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures. By looking at a range of museums in Germany, Britain, France and Belgium, which address a diverse spectrum of topics such as migration, difficult and dark heritage, war, slavery and the GDR, Arnold-de Simine outlines the paradigm shifts in exhibiting practices associated with the transformation of traditional history museums and heritage sites into 'spaces of memory' over the past thirty years. She probes the political and ethical claims of new museums and maps the relevance of key concepts such as 'vicarious trauma', 'secondary witnessing', 'empathic unsettlement', 'prosthetic memory' and 'reflective nostalgia' in the museum landscape"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Museums -- Philosophy
Museums -- Historiography
Memory -- History
Museums -- Social aspects
Museum techniques.
museology.
Cultural studies.
Film theory & criticism.
Museology & heritage studies.
Media studies.
ART -- Museum Studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
REFERENCE -- General.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Society.
Memory
Museum techniques
Museums -- Historiography
Museums -- Philosophy
Museums -- Social aspects
Museum
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Museumspädagogik
Musées -- Philosophie.
Musées -- Historiographie.
Mémoire collective.
Musées -- Aspect social.
Muséologie.
Museer -- historia.
Museer -- sociala aspekter.
Museer -- teori, filosofi.
Historiografi.
Museologi.
Museiteknik.
Cultural studies.
Film history, theory & criticism.
Museology & heritage studies.
Media studies.
Society.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137352644
1137352647
1306285240
9781306285247