Mediated Memory: Visual Culture and Prosthetic (Re)Memory in Post-War German Culture
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Amila Becirbegovic
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Rose, Sven-Erik
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California, Davis
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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230
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Fisher, Jaimey; Krimmer, Elisabeth
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-15119-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
German
Body granting the degree
University of California, Davis
Text preceding or following the note
2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation asks: how do contemporary generations remember the Holocaust and what role do media play in post-WWII cultural memory construction? This dissertation examines how contemporary generations remember the Holocaust through literature, comics, film, music and cabaret performances and investigates what impact popular post-WWII visual remediation has on current genocides. It addresses how images and popular representations affect genocide memory and what potential these representations hold for mobilizing intervention in humanitarian crises, such as during the Bosnian war in the 1990s and the current refugee crisis in Germany.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
German literature; Cultural differences; Migrants; Art; Novels; Politics; Self concept; Radio; Cultural background; Historical text analysis; Refugees; Television; Literature; German; Holocaust studies; Children; Music; Narratives; Cultural identity; Language culture relationship; Slavic studies; Benue Congo languages; Croatian and Serbian; Fiction; Films; Reading; Language history; Families
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Comics;Holocaust;Memory;Prosthetic memory;Refugees;Yugoslavia