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

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Bockwoldt, Juliane C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2019
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000; VDP::Humaniora: 000; Battleship; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17632; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5010

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...