The Witness as Object

<ul> <li> <em>First comprehensive study on the musealization of video testimonies </em></li> <li> <em>Its global outlook: The book considers the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness as a global assemblage and analyzes this phenomenon in memorial museums in Germany Italy the UK and Israel. </em></li> <li> <em>The book takes on a meta perspective: While most books on testimony of the Holocaust analyse the testimonies of Holocaust survivors per se the book looks at this very the phenomenon of recording and analyzing the testimonies - and of course at exhibiting them in museums.</em></li> <li> <em>Its transdisciplinarity: the study uses insights from Holocaust studies cultural memory studies museum studies and semiotics to analyze the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness</em></li></ul>