Remembering the Falklands War

Media, Memory and Identity

• Author(s): Sarah Maltby,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 172
• ISBN_10: 1137556609
  ISBN_13: 9781137556608
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Historiography , Social Science / Media Studies , History / Military / General , Social Science / General , Psychology / Personality , History / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands war to uniquely offer multiple perspectives on a single ‘remembering’ phenomenon. The study offers an analysis of the convergence, interconnectedness and interdependence of media and remembering, specifically the production, interpretation and negotiation of remembering in the media ecology. In so doing it not only examines the role of media in the formation and sustaining of collective memory but also the ways those who remember or are remembered in media texts become implicated in these processes.