Media, memory, and the First World War

Media, memory, and the First World War / David Williams.

Author/creator	Williams, David, 1945-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Montreal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009.
Description	xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war. Memory--History. War and literature. Motion pictures and literature. Literature, Modern--20th century --History and criticism. Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918--Cinéma et guerre. Mémoire--Histoire. Guerre et littérature. Cinéma et littérature. Littérature--20e siècle --Histoire et critique.

Series	McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 48 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas 48. ^A664133
Contents	Modern memory -- Mediated memory -- Oral memory and the anger of Achilleus -- Scripts of empire: remembering Virgil in Barometer rising -- Cinematic memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison -- "Spectral images": the double vision of Siegfried Sassoon -- Photographic memory: "a force of interruption" in The wars -- A play of light: dramatizing relativity in R.H. Thomson's The lost boys -- Electronic memory: "a new Homeric mode" on History Television -- Sound bytes in the archive and the museum -- Conclusion.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
LCCN	2009517248
ISBN	9780773535077 (bound)
ISBN	0773535071 (bound)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	D522.23 .W55 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold