Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments   

Introduction
Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell

PART I: SPECTACULAR MEMORY: MEMORY AND APPEARANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION

Chapter 1. Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary’s House of Terror
Amy Sodaro

Chapter 2. Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site
Rachel Daniell

Chapter 3. The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada
Naomi Angel

PART II: SCREENING ABSENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGY, AFFECT, AND MEMORY

Chapter 4. Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina
Cecilia Sosa

Chapter 5. Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos
Laliv Melamed

Chapter 6. Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade
Samuel Tobin

PART III: SILENCE AND MEMORY: ERASURES, STORYTELLING, AND KITSCH

Chapter 7. Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina
Timothy J. McMillan

Chapter 8. The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements
Nicole Doerr

Chapter 9. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland
Joanna Michlic

Chapter 10. 1989 as Collective Memory “Refolution”: East-Central Europe Confronts Memorial Silence
Susan C. Pearce

Conclusion: Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information and New Media
Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell

List of Contributors

About the Author

Lindsey A. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia and a co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures from Poe to Punk.

Reviews

“This is an extremely interesting collection of essays on a wide variety of memory practices from across the globe.”  ·  Jo Labanyi, New York University