Media and Memory in New Shanghai

Western Performances of Futures Past

AvA. Lagerkvist

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:269 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349436873

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Historia: teori och metod inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the co-editor of Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (with A. Jansson, 2009) and the author of numerous articles on media space, mobilities and memory. She is currently working on a project on the televisual memory of 9/11 in Sweden, and on the existential dimensions of the commemoration of mediated trauma.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Memories in the Making: Media, Memory, Performance 3. Retromodern Shanghai: Uncanny Memories of Media Futures Past 4. Strange Rhythms of Legendary Shanghai 5. Performing Futures Past: Memory as Mediatized Performativity 6. American Hauntings: Memory, Space and the Virtual Epilogue Notes Appendices Bibliography Index