Tangled memories : the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering /
Sturken, Marita, 1957-
Tangled memories : the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering / Marita Sturken. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997. - 1 online resource (x, 358 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-350) and index.
Camera images and national meanings -- The Wall and the screen memory: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Reenactment and the making of history: the Vietnam War as docudrama -- Spectacles of memory and amnesia: remembering the Persian Gulf War -- AIDS and the politics of representation -- Conversations with the dead: bearing witness in the AIDS memorial quilt -- Bodies of commemoration: the immune system and HIV -- Afterword.
This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice.
9780520918122 (electronic bk.) 0520918126 (electronic bk.) 0585078041 (electronic bk.) 9780585078045 (electronic bk.) 9780520086531 0520086538 9780520206205 0520206207
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
1900-1999
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Political culture--History--United States--20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Influence.
AIDS (Disease)--United States.
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Influence.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Television and history--United States.
Motion pictures and history.
Memory.
Politics, Practical.
AIDS (Disease)
Memory
Politics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Television
Motion Pictures as Topic.
Mémoire--Aspect politique--États-Unis.
Mythes politiques--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975--Influence.
Sida--États-Unis.
Guerre du golfe Persique, 1991--Influence.
Culture populaire--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Télévision et histoire--États-Unis.
Cinéma et histoire.
Mémoire.
Politique.
Sida.
Télévision.
politics.
television (telecommunication system)
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
AIDS (Disease)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Memory--Political aspects.
Motion pictures and history.
Political culture.
Popular culture.
Television and history.
Aids.
Golfkrieg
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Vietnamkrieg
Collectief geheugen.
Vietnam-oorlog.
AIDS.
Politieke cultuur.
AIDS.
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
E169.12 / .S849 1997eb
306.2/0973
Tangled memories : the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering / Marita Sturken. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997. - 1 online resource (x, 358 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-350) and index.
Camera images and national meanings -- The Wall and the screen memory: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Reenactment and the making of history: the Vietnam War as docudrama -- Spectacles of memory and amnesia: remembering the Persian Gulf War -- AIDS and the politics of representation -- Conversations with the dead: bearing witness in the AIDS memorial quilt -- Bodies of commemoration: the immune system and HIV -- Afterword.
This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice.
9780520918122 (electronic bk.) 0520918126 (electronic bk.) 0585078041 (electronic bk.) 9780585078045 (electronic bk.) 9780520086531 0520086538 9780520206205 0520206207
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
1900-1999
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Political culture--History--United States--20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Influence.
AIDS (Disease)--United States.
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Influence.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Television and history--United States.
Motion pictures and history.
Memory.
Politics, Practical.
AIDS (Disease)
Memory
Politics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Television
Motion Pictures as Topic.
Mémoire--Aspect politique--États-Unis.
Mythes politiques--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975--Influence.
Sida--États-Unis.
Guerre du golfe Persique, 1991--Influence.
Culture populaire--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
Télévision et histoire--États-Unis.
Cinéma et histoire.
Mémoire.
Politique.
Sida.
Télévision.
politics.
television (telecommunication system)
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
AIDS (Disease)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Memory--Political aspects.
Motion pictures and history.
Political culture.
Popular culture.
Television and history.
Aids.
Golfkrieg
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Vietnamkrieg
Collectief geheugen.
Vietnam-oorlog.
AIDS.
Politieke cultuur.
AIDS.
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
E169.12 / .S849 1997eb
306.2/0973