Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture,New

Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture,New

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Instead of compartmentalizing American experience, the technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender to share collective memoriesto assimilate as personal experience historical events through which they themselves did not live. That's the provocative argument of this book, which examines the formation and potential of privately felt public memories. Alison Landsberg argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the stillunrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The result is a new form of public cultural memory'prosthetic' memorythat awakens the potential in American society for increased social responsibility and political alliances that transcend the essentialism and ethnic particularism of contemporary identity politics.

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