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How can a society communicate a collective trauma? This book offers a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six decades. It investigates the way in which variables such as medium, structure of ownership, genre and targeted audiences shape the collective recollection of traumatic memories. Following their previous conceptual work on media memory, the authors argue that a combination of the aforementioned factors, anchored in the political arena as well as in the realm of media practices and conventions, lead Israeli media to operate on Holocaust Remembrance in a manner that 'acts out' the collective trauma. Thus, the underlying narrative that is performed by the media on Holocaust Remembrance Day frames the Holocaust as a current, ongoing Israeli event, rather than an event that took place in Europe and ended decades ago.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Communicating Awe
• Author: Eyal Zandberg, Motti Neiger, Oren Meyers
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 185
• EAN: 9781137325235
• ISBN: 1137325232
• ID: 04771073
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 144 × 218 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 2014

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