{"id":8342,"date":"2008-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2015-03-09T18:46:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:46:56","slug":"baer-alejandro-2001-consuming-history-and-memory-through-mass-media-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/2008\/01\/baer-alejandro-2001-consuming-history-and-memory-through-mass-media-products\/","title":{"rendered":"BAER, Alejandro (2001): Consuming history and memory through mass media products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href='?attachment_id=961'>BAER, Alejandro (2001): Consuming history and memory through mass media products<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>European Journal of Cultural Studies, November 2001; vol.  4, 4:  pp. 491-501.<\/p>\n<p>SAGE Publications<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-1\">The representation of the past through products of the \u0091culture  industry\u0092 bears the history of a long debate between detractors and optimists.  This controversy becomes especially significant in a time where commercial  audiovisual media affect in unprecedented ways the content and the form in which  massive audiences relate to the events of the past. Even more so in a so-called  postmodern moment in which public confidence in the real is overall in decline.  In this context, the debate on the representation of the history and memory of  the Holocaust \u0096 the paradigmatic example of limitations and imperatives to  representational practice \u0096 has become a contemporary battlefield regarding the  legitimacy and propriety of mass media products. By examining contemporary  Holocaust representations that are at the intersection between the world of  commercial mass media and the conventional nonfiction culture and documentary  tradition (such as high-tech museums and Steven Spielberg\u0092s Survivors of the  Shoah Visual History Foundation), this article will reflect upon the diverse  implications of the mass media\u0096history relation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAER, Alejandro (2001): Consuming history and memory through mass media products European Journal of Cultural Studies, November 2001; vol. 4, 4: pp. 491-501. SAGE Publications The representation of the past through products of the \u0091culture industry\u0092 bears the history of a long debate between detractors and optimists. This controversy becomes especially significant in a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}