Books like Framing Public Memory
Loved Framing Public Memory by Barbara Biesecker? Here are 7 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Framing Public Memory →7 books
- 1On Collective Memory
On Collective Memory
Maurice HalbwachsA foundational account of how groups shape and maintain their shared memories, which underlies much later work on public memory.
- 2Realms of Memory
Realms of Memory
Pierre NoraA collection of essays on the places, objects and symbols where French national memory is anchored.
- 3Tangled Memories
Tangled Memories
Marita SturkenExamines how the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis are remembered in American culture through memorials, films and public rituals.
- 4Present Pasts
Present Pasts
Andreas HuyssenConsiders how the modern obsession with memory, museums and monuments reshapes our relationship to time and the past.
- 5Religion and Cultural Memory
Religion and Cultural Memory
Jan AssmannTraces how societies preserve their past through texts, rituals and institutions, and how that preservation shapes identity.
- 6Watergate in American Memory
Watergate in American Memory
Michael SchudsonStudies how a single political scandal has been remembered, retold and given meaning in American public life over time.
- 7Remembering
Remembering
Edward S. CaseyA philosophical account of memory as a human act, with attention to how places and bodies hold the past.
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