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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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"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
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- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Press coverage.
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- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Political aspects.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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