LEADER 03702nam 22005171 450 001 9910511312303321 005 20170802101130.0 010 $a1-5013-9621-8 010 $a1-62892-462-4 010 $a1-62892-463-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501396212 035 $a(CKB)4340000000214325 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4983606 035 $a(OCoLC)999401175 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09261685 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000214325 100 $a20180320d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerica's disaster culture $ethe production of natural disasters in literature and pop culture /$fRobert C. Bell and Robert M. Ficociello 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (198 pages) 311 $a1-5013-5199-0 311 $a1-62892-461-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Introduction: the death of the natural disaster and the birth of disaster culture -- Trouble when the dust settles : narrative authority and Ken Burns -- Discourse disaste R: San Francisco earthquakes in 1906 and 1989 -- Natural disaster : September 11th, 2001 -- Gulf wars : the narratives of Iraq and New Orleans -- Sandy : subjectivity, celebrity, and social media -- The end of disaster capitalism : (a)bjection to (z)ombies of final disasters -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural" disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture. In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed and minute detail, and Americans begin forming, interpreting, and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with fellow citizens and people worldwide. America's Disaster Culture is not policy, management, or relief oriented. It offers an analytical framework for the cultural production and representation of disasters, catastrophes, and apocalypses in American culture. It focuses on filling a need for critical analysis centered upon the omnipresence of real and imagined disasters, epidemics, and apocalypses in American culture. However, it also observes events, such as the Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11, that are re-framed and re-historicized as "natural" disasters by contemporary media and pop culture. Therefore, America's Disaster Culture theorizes the very parameters of classifying any event as a "natural" disaster, addresses the biases involved in a catastrophic event's public narrative, and analyzes American culture's consumption of a disastrous event. Looking toward the future, what are the hypothetical and actual threats to disaster culture? Or, are we oblivious that we are currently living in a post-apocalyptic landscape?"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aDisasters in literature 606 $aNatural disasters$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $2Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDisasters in literature. 615 0$aNatural disasters$xSocial aspects 676 $a303.48/50973 700 $aBell$b Robert C.$01068414 702 $aFicociello$b Robert 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511312303321 996 $aAmerica's disaster culture$92553245 997 $aUNINA