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Media and Memory in New Shanghai: Western Performances of Futures Past 2013th Edition
Author(s): A. Lagerkvist (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 26 July 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 204 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137014644
- ISBN-13: 9781137014641
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, 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.
