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Tangled memories : the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering / Marita Sturken

Sturken, Marita, 1957-

Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1997

Online Ressource (x, 358 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-350) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Tangled memories

978-0-520-08653-1 ; 0-520-08653-8 ; 978-0-520-20620-5 ; 0-520-20620-7 ; 978-0-520-91812-2 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-91812-6 (electronic bk.); 0-585-07804-1 (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-07804-5 ( : electronic bk.)

0-520-08653-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-20620-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 42856051     

OCoLC: 42856051 (aus SWB)     

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E169.12

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LOC-SH: Memory -- Political aspects -- United States ; Political culture -- History -- 20th century -- United States ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence ; AIDS (Disease) -- United States ; Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Influence ; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century -- United States ; Television and history -- United States ; Motion pictures and history -- United States ; Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Influence ; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Television and history -- United States ; Motion pictures and history ; Memory -- Political aspects -- United States ; AIDS (Disease) -- United States ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence ; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Television and history -- United States ; Motion pictures and history ; Memory -- Political aspects -- United States ; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence ; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; AIDS (Disease) -- United States ; Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Influence ; Electronic books

MeSH: Memory ; Politics ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; Television ; Motion Pictures as Topic

Electronic books / History ; USA ; United States ; Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; AIDS (Disease) ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Memory ; Political aspects ; Motion pictures and history ; Political culture ; Popular culture ; Television and history ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; Aids ; Golfkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Vietnamkrieg ; Collectief geheugen ; Vietnam-oorlog ; AIDS ; Politieke cultuur ; AIDS ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; History

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.

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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