Media and Memory in New Shanghai

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.

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Memories in the Making: Media, Memory, Performance 3. Retromodern Shanghai: Uncanny Memories of Media Futures Past 4. Strange Rhythms of Legendary Shanghai 5. Performing Futures Past: Memory as Mediatized Performativity 6. American Hauntings: Memory, Space and the Virtual Epilogue Notes Appendices Bibliography Index