The language of war monuments
by Abousnnouga, Gill, Machin, David
fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics
by Abousnnouga, Gill, Machin, David
fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics
by Bouissac, Paul, Machin, David
fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textua…
by Abousnnouga, Gill, Machin, David
fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics
War memorials are symbols of a community's sense of itself, the values it holds dear, and its collective memory. They inform us more, perhaps, about the period in which the memorials were erected than the period of the war itself.Kelly McMichael, in her book, Sacred Memories: Th…
Sacred Memories takes the reader on a tour of Civil War monuments throughout Texas, and in doing so tells the story of each monument and its creation.
Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites demonstrates the broad appeal of naval themed commemoration, centering on military aspects from both times of war and peace. Using an international approach, the book illustrates the intersection of the historical understa…
War thrusts men and women, communities and nations into unfamiliar and otherwise unlikely situations and associations. And it is war in general, and twentieth-century warfare in particular, that has engendered widespread commemoration and remembrance of its combatants and victim…
This thesis explores the meanings which commemoration of the First World War had for contemporaries. It examines the activity of war memorial committees, the conduct of ceremonies, and the interpretations of commemoration offered in newspapers, speeches and reminiscences, to dis…
Survivor voices -- Cultures of commemoration -- Memorial film : envisioning race and nation -- Theming America at war -- Making a new museum -- Pedagogy, patriotism, and paranoia.
Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented--in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming-…
Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented--in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming.…