Exploring Cultural Memory Through Political Economy—Manufacturing History in the Documentary The Battle for Hitler’s Supership (2005)

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Juliane C. Bockwoldt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2019
• Subjects: documentary; cultural memory; propaganda model; meaning potentials; World War II; Tirpitz; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Tromsø; Battleship
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5010; https://doaj.org/article/c95d69fb0cd341539481c370a743433d

This article suggests supplementing Astrid Erll’s framework for analysis of memory making media with key insights from Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model. An analysis of the documentary The Battle for Hitler’s Supership that portrays the story of the German battleship Tirpitz, which the British R...