The rise of user-generated content (UGC), such as internet memes and amateur videos, enables new possibilities for mediatization of the past. However, these possibilities can facilitate not only more ...diverse and less top-down engagements with memory, but also lead to its trivialization and distortion of historical facts. The latter concerns are particularly pronounced in the case of memories about mass atrocities (e.g. the Holocaust), where online media are often used to promote denialism and attack the victims’ dignity. To better understand the relationship between UGC and memory mediatization, we examine a selection of internet memes dealing with Anne Frank, an iconic Holocaust victim. Using a combination of inductive content analysis and close reading, we identify four classes of Anne Frank memes: (1) ad hominems; (2) deniers; (3) trivializers; and (4) thought provokers. Our findings demonstrate the multi-faceted functionality of memes, which are used not only to trivialize Holocaust memory, but also to reinforce canonical narratives about Anne Frank, and highlight the dependency of memes on other forms of memory mediatization, thus raising questions about the interrelations between UGC and institutionalized forms of remembrance.
The present study has two main objectives: (1) to further explore the motivations of potential visitors to a heritage site, and (2) to explore whether the relationships among the tourists’ ...perceptions of the site relative to their own heritage are related to their motivations for the visit. The sample is composed of potential visitors to Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The results reveal the existence of motives often ignored in previous studies, including emotional involvement and bequeathal of the site's narrative. The findings also indicate a distinct relationship between tourists’ perceptions of a site relative to their own heritage and the motivations for visiting the site. The study contributes to the understanding of tourist behaviors relative to heritage settings along with implications for the marketing of heritage settings.
Anne Frank Unbound Barbara Kishenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler / Barbara Kishenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler
10/2012
eBook
As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks ...beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank range from veneration to irreverence. Although at times they challenge conventional perceptions of her significance, these works testify to the power of Anne Frank, the writer, and Anne Frank, the cultural phenomenon, as people worldwide forge their own connections with the diary and its author.
This three-year, living inquiry into how preservice English Education students composed and analyzed visual-verbal journals (VVJs) in relation to Anne Frank's Diary is grounded in Ahmed's concepts of ...happy objects, bad encounters, and good encounters. After theorizing and complicating Ahmed's concepts, we explore the way that the Diary has been positioned in the social fields of U.S. popular culture and schools. Across the three years, we found that participants overwhelmingly produced Anne Frank as a happy object, in ways that valorized her and emphasized the saving power of individual moral conduct rather than the brutal sides of her life and death. Through communal analysis of the VVJs and pedagogical changes across the years, participants became less likely to produce solely optimistic compositions of Frank. We argue for teacher education courses that do not focus upon single responses to complex issues and histories; instead, we explain how the conjunction 'and' can multiply the complexity of our engagements with texts and unravel binaries that have long had a hold on teacher education.
Anne Frank in de DDR en Rusland Missinne, Lut; Michajlova, Irina
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The Diary of Anne Frank, written between 1942 and 1944 while she was in hiding with her family in Amsterdam, has been translated in more than 70 languages. Not only the editorial history but also the ...history of the translations and the reception of Anne Frank’s Diary abroad are complex stories. In this article we will outline how the German translation in the fifties – first in West Germany in 1950 and seven years later in the German Democratic Republic – functioned as a transit port for the Russian translation that came out in 1960. Furthermore we will illustrate how both the history of the East German and the Russian publication bear traces of the political and ideological context in which they came into being and how they are marked by their respective specific memory culture. Therefore we investigate the first West German translation made by a non-professional translator and the Russian translation from 1960, the role of the reviews (Gutachten), prefaces and afterwords, and we read these against the backdrop of the political and historical developments. Also, the role of adaptations comes up: the Broadway theatrical production staged in West and East Germany in 1956 helped spread the story of Anne Frank amongst German readers, while in the Soviet Union it was the book publication of her Diary that inspired poets and composers.
This thesis describes the analysis, design, and implementation of University of Arkansas’ production of The Diary of Anne Frank. The entire process is explored and analyzed with a specific focus on ...the challenges the production staff faced along with creative victories that we shared when creating this production. This document comments on and explores how the facts of the story and principal location of The Diary of Anne Frank influenced our more abstracted world of the play. This thesis includes the essential design documents and support materials used in the creation of the scenic design of The Diary of Anne Frank. This includes: research images, early sketches, ground plans, renderings, paint elevations, and production photos.
O artigo explicita o conceito de diário, remetendo a sua origem para os gêneros de cariz confessional. Enquanto expressão literária, esse gênero textual parece abalar as convenções da construção ...ficcional. É sob esta luz que os autores analisam a obra O Diário, de Anne Frank. Escrito pela conhecida adolescente judia, a obra tece um conjunto de considerações pessoais e familiares, mas também políticas, sociológicas e ideológicas sobre os lugares do homem no mundo.
O contexto geral deste artigo concerne ao período histórico da primeira e da segunda grande guerra, tendo em vista os impactos destas dentro dos momentos nos quais se inseriam e suas consequências ...posteriores na experiência daqueles cujas vidas sofreriam interferência (direta ou indireta) daquilo que se passou dentro e fora dos campos de batalha. É neste sentido que propomos um paralelo entre o romance Nada de Novo no Front (Remarque, 2004) e talvez um dos diários que acabou por se tornar o mais mundialmente conhecido: O Diário de Anne Frank (Frank, 2007). É justamente a maneira tal qual esta confiança no corpo narrativo, nas palavras, na configuração textual acaba por resultar na própria reinserção, reconfiguração e ressignificação tanto de Anne Frank quanto de Erich Remarque enquanto sujeitos – dentro do contexto das duas guerras mundiais – que nossa análise identifica e discute.
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