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The Past in Visual Culture: Essays on Memory, Nostalgia and the Media

The Past in Visual Culture: Essays on Memory, Nostalgia and the Media

Kay, Jilly Boyce
Mahoney, Cat
Shaw, Caitlin

Paperback

General ArtGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1476663807
ISBN13: 9781476663807
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jan 4 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past--accessed with the touch of a finger--are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual culture affects our relationship with history and memory.

This collection of new essays contributes to a growing debate about how the past and its media are appropriated in the modern world. Focusing on a range of visual cultures, the essays explore the intersection of film, television, online and print media and visual art--platforms whose boundaries are increasingly hard to define--and the various ways we engage the past in an environment saturated with the imagery of previous eras. Topics include period screen fiction, nonfiction media histories and memories, cinematic nostalgia and recycling, and the media as both purveyors and carriers of memory.

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