Misplacing Memory
The Effect of Television Format on Holocaust Remembrance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5635552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola A Lisus, Richard V Ericson |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/591620 |
| PMID | 7735724 |
| OpenAlex | W2333780621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles provides a case study of how museum designers use television formats to communicate and educate. A dramatic spectacle is created that shapes how visitors are to feel and think. This spectacle turns the museum into an emotions factory and functions as a 'format of control'. It exerts a 'creeping surrealism' upon the visitor that misplaces memory and history by degrees. The implications of being unable to transcend television formats in a post-Gutenberg-galaxy world are discussed
Art · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Spectacle · The Holocaust · Visitor pattern · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2021 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |