History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2003

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2003

Some sense of time: remembering television *.
September 22, 2003... Although television has been with us, at least in the Western world, for fifty years or more, we know little of its effects on memory, both individual and collective. How does television shape memory? What is remembered? Events, places, people,...

Germaine Tillion and resistance to the Vichy Syndrome.
September 22, 2003... Those in charge cannot always prefer "their mother to justice," to the constraints of a fixed objective (aux lois de l'objectif a atteindre). But it is likely that faced with the revelations brought by the report of Dorine [a wartime report to...

The Mitlaufer in two German postwar films: representation and critical reception.
September 22, 2003... During the early postwar period, few German feature films dealt explicitly with the National Socialist past and its aftereffects. As in other eras, filmmakers responded to the audience's wish for entertainment. Some directors and screenwriters...

Between silence and license: the representation of the National Socialist persecution of homosexuality in Anglo-American fiction and film.
September 22, 2003... Public knowledge and awareness of the persecution of homosexuality in National Socialist Germany remained limited until 1979, when the play Bent by Martin Sherman dramatized for the first time the lives of homosexuals during the Nazi era for...

Memory vanished, absent, and confined: the countermemorial project in 1980s and 1990s Germany *.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION The 1970s-1980s boom of traditional (nineteenth-century) memorials to Germany's Nazi past led many theorists to overturn conventional conceptions of representation (or re-presentation). (1) Memorial activity, which I call...