Mass Media And The Genocide Of The Armenians: One Hundred Years Of Uncertain Representation (palgrave Studies In The History Of Genocide)

The role of the mass media in genocide is multifaceted with respect to the disclosure and flow of information. This volume investigates questions of responsibility, denial, victimisation and marginalisation through an analysis of the media representations of the Armenian genocide in different national contexts. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Representations of the Armenian Genocide in the Mass Media....Pages 1-15 Genocide and the Arts: Creativity, Morality and the Representation of Traumatic Experience....Pages 16-35 Ravished Armenia (1919): Bearing Witness in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction....Pages 36-50 A Christian Harem: Ravished Armenia and the Representation of the Armenian Woman in the International Press....Pages 51-84 From Silence to Re-remembrance: The Response of German Media to Massacres and Genocide against the Ottoman Armenians....Pages 85-109 The Condition of Armenian Refugees and Orphans as Reported in Armyanskiy Vestnik ....Pages 110-125 The Polish Press and Armenian Genocide from 1895 to 1920....Pages 126-145 The 1915 Genocide in the Post-war Ottoman Press and in Parliamentary Records (1918–1919)....Pages 146-179 Extreme Violence and Massacres during the First World War: A Comparative Study of the Armenian Genocide and German Atrocities in the Canadian Press (1914–1919)....Pages 180-205 A Case of Jewish Coverage of the Armenian Genocide in the United States: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, “Champion of any Wronged People”....Pages 206-232 Epilogue....Pages 233-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-241 "The role of the mass media in genocide is multifaceted, with respect to the disclosure and flow of information. In fact, the mass media provides both explanations and interpretations of events to the public in potentially controversial ways. From this perspective, the Armenian genocide, the first of its kind in the modern era, continues to raise many questions. What impact did the mass media have on related events as they occurred? Similarly, what direct and indirect impact did media coverage have on the international public space? What importance should be attributed to mass media iconography in the representation of mass violence? How was the media discourse expressed semantically? How does that lead to conflicts over the ways in which historical events are commemorated and remembered? On the eve of the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian genocide, Mass Media and the Genocide of the Armenians investigates questions of responsibility, denial, victimisation and marginalisation through an analysis of the media representations of the genocide in different national contexts"-- Provided by publisher