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Old and new media after Katrina

Author: Diane Negra
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This collection of essays explores the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and a range of media forms, assessing how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. Looking closely at the organization of public memory of Katrina, this collection provides a timely and intellectually fruitful  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Diane Negra
ISBN: 9780230102668 0230102662
OCLC Number: 475447226
Description: viii, 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Uncovering the bones : forensic approaches to Hurricane Katrina on contemporary crime / Lindsay Steenberg --
The Big Apple and The Big Easy : trauma, proximity, and home in new (and old) media / Joy V. Fuqua --
Expanded medium : National Public Radio and Katrina web memorials / Maria Pramaggiore --
Life preservers : the neoliberal enterprise of Hurricane Katrina survival in Trouble the water, House M.D., and When the levees broke / Jane Elliott --
Discovery Channel's reality-hybrid series : representing survival in the wake of Katrina / Andrew Goodridge --
Exile, return, and new economy subjectivity in Last holiday / Diana Negra --
Media artists, local activists, and outside activists : the case of Helen Hill / Dan Streible --
In desperate need (of a makeover) : the neoliberal project, the design expert, and the post-Katrina social body in distress / Brenda Weber --
From Mr. Pregnant to Mr. President : prepositioning Katrina online / Jeff Streible.
Responsibility: edited by Diane Negra.

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On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this book examines the television coverage of September, 2005, and the manifestation of its legacy in a range of other media forms.  Read more...
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"Hurricane Katrina left an indelible footprint, not only on the city of New Orleans, the infrastructure of its culture, and the ecosystem of the Louisiana coast, but also on a vast spectrum of American cultural narratives and on the media that proliferate them. Magnificently assembled and superbly edited, the essays in "Old and New Media after Katrina" maintain the perfect intellectual pitch and stylistic tone--highly readable and relentlessly on target--to unpack with urgency and insight the neoliberal appropriation of human suffering and governmental malaise symptomatic of the nation's corroded social economy. Engaging sundry forms of mediation, from popular film and television, to reality shows and nature documentaries, to experimental art and National Public Radio, this enticing collection makes an important and very timely contribution to media studies and American studies. It's a terrific book."--Alan Nadel, author of "Containment Culture" and "Television in Black-and-White Am Read more...

 
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