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Media and Memory in New Shanghai A. Lagerkvist

Media and Memory in New Shanghai By A. Lagerkvist

Media and Memory in New Shanghai by A. Lagerkvist

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Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Media and Memory in New Shanghai Summary

Media and Memory in New Shanghai: Western Performances of Futures Past by A. Lagerkvist

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

About A. Lagerkvist

Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Soedertoern University, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the co-editor of Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (with A. Jansson, 2009) and the author of numerous articles on media space, mobilities and memory. She is currently working on a project on the televisual memory of 9/11 in Sweden, and on the existential dimensions of the commemoration of mediated trauma.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Memories in the Making: Media, Memory, Performance 3. Retromodern Shanghai: Uncanny Memories of Media Futures Past 4. Strange Rhythms of Legendary Shanghai 5. Performing Futures Past: Memory as Mediatized Performativity 6. American Hauntings: Memory, Space and the Virtual Epilogue Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

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NLS9781349436873
9781349436873
1349436879
Media and Memory in New Shanghai: Western Performances of Futures Past by A. Lagerkvist
A. Lagerkvist
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-01-01
192
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