Media and Memory in New Shanghai: Western Performances of Futures Past

by A. Lagerkvist

Overview

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349436873
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Skholm, Sweden. She is the co-editor of Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (with A. Jansson, 2009) and the author of numerous articles on media space, mobilities and memory. She is currently working on a project on the televisual memory of 9/11 in Sweden, and on the existential dimensions of the commemoration of mediated trauma.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Memories in the Making: Media, Memory, Performance 3. Retromodern Shanghai: Uncanny Memories of Media Futures Past 4. Strange Rhythms of Legendary Shanghai 5. Performing Futures Past: Memory as Mediatized Performativity 6. American Hauntings: Memory, Space and the Virtual Epilogue Notes Appendices Bibliography Index