How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books. Social critiques argue that …

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the
recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible …

How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media
converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers …

The cover image for this volume,“Self Portrait (Ellis Island),” evokes several of the issues and
assumptions suggested by the relationship between cultural memory and gender. Produced …

This essay focuses on re-enactments of the past through performances of memory both in
and with visual media, and looks at how these may embody, express, work through, and …

This is a book about the practice of researching culture. It offers, as our title suggests, a
clarification and elaboration of the methodological basis for 'cultural studies', which we …

We often hear that creative and intellectual innovation is the key to western economic
renewal, that cognitive capitalism has succeeded in globalizing the mental-manual division …

An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the
relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a …

Over the past few decades feminist media scholarship has flourished, to become a major
influence on the fields of media, film and cultural studies. At the same time, the cultural shift …

Recent years have seen a flowering of research and scholarship on cultural memory across
the humanities and social sciences. Among the many facets of this work is a quest to extend …