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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459816703321

Autore

Cook Bernie <1968->

Titolo

Flood of images : media, memory, and Hurricane Katrina / / Bernie Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-292-77135-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Disciplina

976/.044

Soggetti

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Press coverage

Mass media - Objectivity - United States

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Where Y'at?""; ""Part One. Television News""; ""1. There Is No Wide Shot: Television News and Collective Memory""; ""2. Weather Citizens: Sunday, August 28""; ""3. These Are the First Pictures from the Air: Monday, August 29""; ""4. The Sort of Disaster Humans Cause: Tuesday, August 30""; ""5. The Walking Dead: Wednesday, August 31""; ""6. Over My Drowned Body: Thursday, September 1""; ""7. Not Sure What Is the Truth or Rumor Anymore: Friday, September 2""; ""8. A Big Corner Turned: Saturday, September 3""

""9. A Violent Day: Sunday, September 4""""10. 99 Percent of It Is Bullshit: The Weeks After""; ""Part Two. Documentary""; ""11. Familiar from Television: Documentary as Collected Memory""; ""12. A Requiem in Four Acts: When the Levees Broke""; ""13. Ain't Nobody Got What I Got:Trouble the Water""; ""14. How Can Our Past Help Us to Survive This Time?Faubourg Treme""; ""15. We Were Not on the Map: A Village Called Versailles""; ""16. Our Mayor: Race""; ""17. Re-Occupying New Orleans: Land of Opportunity""; ""18. Disappeared People: Law & Disorder""; ""Part Three. Fiction""



""19. My Fiction Seems a Bit Inconsequential to Me Now: Treme's Truth Claim""""20. In the David Simon Business: Treme's Mode of Production""; ""21. The Continuance of Culture""; ""22. All These Trucks Got Bodies?Dramatizing Injustice""; ""Conclusion. Desitively Katrina""; ""Bibliography""; ""Films and Media""; ""Index""