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Author Ward, Simon.

Title Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin
Published Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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Contents Introduction : Berlin and the question of 'urban memory' -- Remembering the 'murdered city' : Berlin 1957-1974 -- 'Place memory work' in Berlin 1975-1989 -- The remembered city on display, 1984-1993 -- In search of a city? Urban memory in unified Berlin -- Conclusion: the collectives of contemporary urban memory
Summary As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated
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English
Subject Memorials -- Germany -- Berlin
Collective memory -- Germany -- Berlin
Film theory & criticism.
Motion pictures
Memorials
Collective memory
Civilization
Städtebau
Kulturelle Identität
Denkmal
Architektur
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- Civilization -- 20th century
Berlin (Germany) -- In art
Berlin (Germany) -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003308
Subject Germany -- Berlin
Berlin
Genre/Form Art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789089648532
9089648534