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Comics & Memory in Latin America

Jorge L. Catalá-Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, James Scorer (eds.)

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), vi, 262 pp.

"Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contr ... more

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Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies

Anna Lisa Tota, Trever Hagen (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xxii, 546 pp.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections, and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: Theories and Perspectives; Cultural artefacts, Symbols and Social practices; ... more

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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China

Eileen Le Han

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.

"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc ... more

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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Hillary L. Chute

Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press;Harvard University Press (2016), 359 pp.

"In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by d ... more

Communication, Generation and Cultural Memory: Insights from Fieldwork in Vietnam

Christina Sanko

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Leif Kramp; Nico Carpentier; Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)

Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 213-226

"The chapter examines the complex relations of communication processes, generations and cultural memory in the socio-cultural setting of North Vietnam. It critically reviews present scholarly work in the flourishing, but scattered, field of memory research in communication and media studies, and dis ... more

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Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction

Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 307 pp.

"Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups ... more

Memory Studies: A Brief Concept Paper

Tanja Bosch

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 9 pp.

"The paper presents: A discussion of the methods used in memory studies, explaining how attention to questions of methodology has been limited in memory studies because much research has been more concerned with theoretical issues. The paper reflects on the methods from oral history, as well as othe ... more

Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), vi, 383 pp.

"The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th ce ... more

Remembering While Forgetting: How Young Czechs Grow Into Collective Memory

Tomás Karger, Jan Kalenda

[authors] (2016), 7 pp.

Transiciones, memorias e identidades en Europa y América Latina

Juan Ignacio Piovani, Clara Ruvituso, Nikolaus Werz (eds.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana;Vervuert (2016), 291 pp.

"El presente volumen recoge diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos sobre las memorias, transiciones políticas e identidades en Alemania, Argentina y España, buscando establecer comparaciones y puntos de convergencia en sociedades signadas durante el siglo XX por regímenes políticos autor ... more

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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.

"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more

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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

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Humor gráfico: Manual de uso para la historia

Florencia Levín

Los Polvorines: Ediciones UNGS, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (2015), 123 pp.

"El primer capítulo, titulado “Hacia una conceptualización del humor gráfico”, se propone aportar herramientas conceptuales y teóricas que nos permitan concebir al humor gráfico como un tipo particular de discurso social. El capítulo comienza con un intento de organización conceptual de l ... os campos semánticos relacionados con el llamado humor gráfico (comic, historieta, cartoon, viñeta de humor, tira cómica y tira de humor) y, desde luego, de la categoría de humor gráfico misma, con el objetivo de lograr desprender de los usos habituales de estas categorías (a las que llamaremos categorías nativas) una conceptualización erudita que permita organizar y fundamentar tanto una metodología para la investigación histórica como los criterios que guían la escritura de este libro. El capítulo ofrece, asimismo, un breve mapa conceptual para ubicar al humor gráfico en el marco de la teoría psicoanalítica del humor, y finalmente, algunos lineamientos para caracterizar al humor gráfico como discurso social, a partir del cual podemos abordar tanto la dimensión representacional de la experiencia colectiva como así también el carácter político de estos actos de lenguaje, en los cuales un autor, llamado humorista, toma la palabra. En el segundo capítulo, titulado “El lenguaje del comic y el cartoon”, se ofrece una descripción sistemática de los principales elementos y componentes del género, desarrollada por la semiología estructural, y se incorporan algunos comentarios de desarrollos posteriores en el marco del posestructuralismo. Allí se describen los principales componentes del comic y sus vínculos, prestando especial atención a los mecanismos de producción de sentido en el marco de las viñetas. Los siguientes dos capítulos se abocan a la historización de los géneros vinculados con el humor gráfico. El capítulo 3 aborda la historia del comic focalizando en el desarrollo de la industria periodística estadounidense, en el seno de la cual nació el comic propiamente dicho, aunque se ofrecen también referencias permanentes a los desarrollos de géneros afines en los países europeos. Por su parte, el capítulo 4 se ocupa de la historia del humor gráfico y de la historieta en la Argentina desde el siglo xix hasta avanzado el proceso de la transición democrática. Siguiendo un criterio similar, los siguientes dos capítulos abordan un recorrido por los principales desarrollos académicos vinculados a estos géneros: el capítulo 5 se centra en los portes y debates internacionales; y el capítulo 6, en los estudios sobre el género en la Argentina, incluyendo, en ambos casos, no solo comentarios sobre las producciones académicas o eruditas, sino también sobre los circuitos de producción y circulación extraacadémicos." (Introducción, página 14-15) more

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Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention

Dagmar Brunow

Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2015), 252 pp.

"Despite the growing field of media memory studies, the impact from film and media studies has been scarce within memory studies. This unique study offers new theorizations of three crucial concepts for media memory studies: remediation, transculturality and the archive. This book takes a closer loo ... more

Social Media and Collective Remembrance: The Debate Over China’s Great Famine on Weibo

Hui Zhao, Jun Liu

China Perspectives, issue 1 (2015), pp. 41-48

"This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in articulating individuals’ experiences and memories and (re-)shaping collective memory in contemporary China. It investigates how social media enable and facilitate the participation of ordinary citizens in distributing an ... more

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Media Witnessing: Exploring the Audience of Distant Suffering

Maria Kyriakidou

Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 2 (2015), pp. 215-231

"This article aims at demonstrating the relevance of the concept of 'media witnessing' as an analytical lens for the study of audience engagement with media reports of distant suffering. Drawing upon existing theoretical work on the concept, the article approaches media witnessing as a distinct moda ... more

Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.

"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more

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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels

Carolene Ayaka, Ian Hague (eds.)

New York, London: Routledge (2015), xiii, 269 pp.

"This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Ro ... more