Misplacing Memory: The Effect of Television Format on Holocaust Remembrance

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The British journal of sociology 1995-03, Vol.46 (1), p.1-19
Hauptverfasser:	Lisus, Nicola A., Ericson, Richard V.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anti-Semitism Atrocities Audiovisual Media Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance California Concentration Camps Cultural institutions Designers Docents Emotions Genocide Historical museums History Holocaust Humans Illusions Jewish holocaust Jews - psychology Los Angeles Los Angeles, California Memory Mental Recall Museum exhibits Museum techniques Museums Nazi era Prejudice Religion and Psychology Simulation Sociology Sociology of communication and mass media. Sociolinguistics Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture Spectacle Surrealism Television Television programmes Television programs Television viewers Theater U.S.A
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	0007-1315 1468-4446 1468-4446
DOI:	10.2307/591620