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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Prosthetic memory"”.
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
… also focuses on the question of vectors of memory in France and Algeria, as well as intermediality in contemporary French and Algerian narratives. My guiding theoretical framework throughout the dissertation draws on Marianne Hirsch’s discussions of what she calls “postmemory.” However, …
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
… of “the gaze,” Alison Landsberg’s idea of “prosthetic memory,” and Nana Verhoeff’s historical view of our modern understandings of the American frontier, this work aims to build on the tradition of understanding how certain mechanisms and historical moments have allowed for the survival and …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… with the Wind's version of Lost Cause collective memory on the construction of the Old South, Civil War, and Lost Cause in the American imagination from 1936 to 2016. By utilizing the concept of prosthetic memory in conjunction with older, still-existing forms of collective cultural memory, Gone …
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Prosthetic Traveling Companions
<p><strong>This essay explores the potential for narrative art (film, literature, comics) to be a transformative experience in the life of the consumer (viewer, reader) through a sensuous, embodied interaction with that work of narrative art. Drawing from film, narrative and comics theory as well …