ISBN:
9780520086531
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0520086538
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9780520206205
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0520206207
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9780520918122
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0520918126
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0585078041
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9780585078045
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 358 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Tangled memories
DDC:
306.20973
Keywords:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
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Memory Political aspects
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United States
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Political culture History
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20th century
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United States
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence
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AIDS (Disease) United States
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 Influence
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Popular culture History
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20th century
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United States
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Television and history United States
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Motion pictures and history United States
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 Influence
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Popular culture History 20th century
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Television and history
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Motion pictures and history
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Memory Political aspects
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AIDS (Disease)
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence
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Political culture History 20th century
;
Television and history
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Motion pictures and history
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Memory Political aspects
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Popular culture History 20th century
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Influence
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Political culture History 20th century
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AIDS (Disease)
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 Influence
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Memory
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Politics
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Television
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Motion Pictures as Topic
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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AIDS (Disease)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Memory ; Political aspects
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Motion pictures and history
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Political culture
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Popular culture
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Television and history
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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Aids
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Golfkrieg
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Vietnamkrieg
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Collectief geheugen
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Vietnam-oorlog
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AIDS
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Politieke cultuur
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AIDS
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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History
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USA
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
Camera images and national meanings -- The Wall and the screen memory: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Reenactment and the making of history: the Vietnam War as docudrama -- Spectacles of memory and amnesia: remembering the Persian Gulf War -- AIDS and the politics of representation -- Conversations with the dead: bearing witness in the AIDS memorial quilt -- Bodies of commemoration: the immune system and HIV -- Afterword.
Abstract:
This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-350) and index. - Description based on print version record
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