The witness as object : video testimony in memorial museums

The witness as object video testimony in memorial museums

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Other Authors: Jong, Steffi de, 1984- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn 2018.
Series:Museums and collections ; Volume 10.
Subjects:
Video tapes in historiography.
Oral history.
Historical museums > Exhibitions.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives.
Collective memory.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography.
Holocaust survivors > Interviews > Historiography.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426988606719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Text
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Witness to History: Conceptual Clarifications
  • Chapter 2. Genealogy: The Mediation of the Witness to History as a Carrier of Memory
  • Chapter 3. Collecting: Turning Communicative Memory into Cultural Memory
  • Chapter 4. Exhibiting: The Witness to History as a Museum Object
  • Chapter 5. Communicating: Witnesses to History as Didactic Tools
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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