title: Misplacing memory: the effect of television format on Holocaust remembrance.
abstract: The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles provides a case study of how museum designers use television formats to communicate and educate. A dramatic spectacle is created that shapes how visitors are to feel and think. This spectacle turns the museum into an emotions factory and functions as a 'format of control'. It exerts a 'creeping surrealism' upon the visitor that misplaces memory and history by degrees. The implications of being unable to transcend television formats in a post-Gutenberg-galaxy world are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Center of Criminology, University of Toronto.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Lisus
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Ericson
mesh_terms: D003209:Concentration Camps; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D015141:Los Angeles; D011939:Mental Recall; D009144:Museums; D011287:Prejudice; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013690:Television