Prosthetic memory: The ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture

Memory and popular film

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 144-161

  Landsberg, Alison ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (17)

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2. Alison Landsberg, 'Prosthetic Memory: Blade Runner and Total Recall', Body and Society 1: 3-1 (November 1995).
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5. Alison Landsberg, 'America, the Holocaust and the Mass Culture of Memory: Towards a Radical Politics of Empathy', New German Critique 71 (Spring-Summer 1997), 63-86.
6. Alison Landsberg, 'Prosthetic Memory: The Logics and Politics of Memory in Modern American Culture' (PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1996).
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