Media, Memory, and the First World War (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas) (Volume 48) - Williams, David

Clean, tight, unmarked; spine straight and uncreased; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In this highly original of memory, David Williams shows how classic Great War literature was symptomatic of a cultural crisis brought on by the advent of cinema. He argues that images from Malins' popular war film The Battle of the Somme (1916) collapsed social, temporal, and spatial boundaries, giving film a new cultural legitimacy, while the appearance of writings based on cinematic forms of remembering marked a crucial transition from a verbal to a visual culture. By contrast, today's digital media, whether in History Television, the digital Memory Project, or the interactive war museum, are laying the ground for a return to Homeric memory. This book is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture. 
Near Fine
Soft cover
McGill-Queen's University Press
2011
Monee, IL