Media, memory, and the First World War
By: David Williams.
Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas -- 48; McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas -- 48.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780773535077
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war; Memory -- History; War and literature; Motion pictures and literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Cinéma et guerre; Mémoire -- Histoire; Guerre et littérature; Cinéma et littérature; Littérature -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern memory; title: Mediated memory; title: Oral memory and the anger of Achilleus; title: Scripts of empire: remembering Virgil in Barometer rising; title: Cinematic memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison; title: "Spectral images": the double vision of Siegfried Sassoon; title: Photographic memory: "a force of interruption" in The wars; title: A play of light: dramatizing relativity in R.H. Thomson's The lost boys; title: Electronic memory: "a new Homeric mode" on History Television; title: Sound bytes in the archive and the museum; title: Conclusion.