Essays
History as Blockbuster (The Influence of Art and Media Discourse on the Formation of Cultural Memory)
Igor Gajin
; Academy of Arts, University of Osijek
Abstract
The decision of director Quentin Tarantino to kill Adolf Hitler in his film Inglorious Basterds has sparked criticism for alleged forgery of history. However, when studying the archives of the Jewish ghetto in Poland, Swedish writer Steve Sem- Sendberg noted that fiction has started with the preservation of the first document. Had the Boston bomber not appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, we could, in fact, ask the question formulated by Jean Baudrillard: Did it even happen?
Keywords
Terrorism; fictionalization of history; falsification of history; iconicity; the Other
Hrčak ID:
168611
URI
Publication date:
2.5.2016.
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