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Media and Memory in New Shanghai

Western Performances of Futures Past

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Amanda Lagerkvist

    1. Sodertorn University, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 1-27

  3. Memories in the Making: Media, Memory, Performance

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 28-51

  4. Retromodern Shanghai: Uncanny Memories of Media Futures Past

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 52-72

  5. Strange Rhythms of Legendary Shanghai

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 73-96

  6. Performing Futures Past: Memory as Mediatized Performativity

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 97-125

  7. American Hauntings: Memory, Space, and the Virtual

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 126-155

  8. Epilogue

    • Amanda Lagerkvist
    Pages 156-160

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 161-192
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Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sodertorn University, Sweden

    Amanda Lagerkvist

About the author

Amanda Lagerkvist is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the co-editor of Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (with A. Jansson, 2009) and the author of numerous articles on media space, mobilities and memory. She is currently working on a project on the televisual memory of 9/11 in Sweden, and on the existential dimensions of the commemoration of mediated trauma.

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