https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/preview/20836947/G%20Frame%20-%20Memorials%20Article.pdf
Olympus has fallen
monuments as "fundamental to the nations ongoing construction of identity"
"means by which citizens understand, celebrate, mourn nation's bast"
Kirk Savage: "deep need for attachment that can be met only in a real place"
"existence of the nation is confirmed in a simple but powerful way."
The closest encounter I have ever experienced with G-d was when I was sitting in a movie theatre at around 10 years old. I do not recall what film I was watching, all I remember was that I was suddenly very alone, and that G-d was listening to me.
Albert Boime: America's monuments "pose as shrines to national ideas.... affect... consciousness and behaviour"
state "exploits" monuments to become "regulators of the social memory and hence of social conscience"
Erica Doss:
Planet of the Apes
Logan's Run
Cloverfield
"‘Abandoned memorials are
metaphors for an abandoned nation; vandalized memorials signify national instability and imminent collapse … ruined national memorials symbolize anxieties about a ruined national body.’ (57)"
Ian Scott: Lincoln Memorial in cinema
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
buttress to national identity and dem values around Great Depression, WWII
Young Mr. Lincoln
Nixon
nations ideals vs. reality, vietnam scene
Night at the Museum 2 (2009)
Lincoln Memorial: "shorthand to recall nation's highest ideals adn greatest achievements"
Lisa simpson goes to washington -- lincoln and then jefferson
