This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees.

This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees.

„Mythen des Alltags“. Was haben Marilyn Monroe, Asterix, die Alpen und Ewige Jugend gemeinsam? Sie alle gehören zu den modernen Mythen. Moderne Mythen unterscheiden sich in vielem nicht von den klassischen: Sie sind zugleich stetig und wandelbar, sie schaffen kollektive Identität, stiften Sinn, deuten die Welt und verwandeln Widersprüchliches in scheinbar Eindeutiges. Das Lexikon versammelt erstmals exemplarisch moderne Mythen aus dem Zeitraum des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts. In über 120 Artikeln werden Personen (Marilyn Monroe, Goethe und Schiller), Figuren (Asterix, Pippi Langstrumpf), Ereignisse (68er-Bewegung), Orte (Alpen, Rhein) und Konzepte (Fortschritt, Ewige Jugend) in ihrer mythischen Qualität und ihren Deutungszusammenhängen vorgestellt.