The Mnemonic Imagination [electronic resource] : Remembering as Creative Practice /
Keightley, E.author.
Pickering, M.author.
An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; An Outline of What Lies Ahead; 1 Memory and Experience; 2 The Mnemonic Imagination; 3 Personal and Popular Memory; 4 The Reclamation of Nostalgia; 5 The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining; 6 Creative Memory and Painful Pasts; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies.