Flood of Images : : Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina / / Bernie Cook.
Anyone who was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of the city experienced the disaster as a media event, a flood of images pouring across television and computer screens. The twenty-four-hour news cycle created a surplus of representation that overwhelmed viewers...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Where Y’at?
- Part One Television News
- Chapter One. There Is No Wide Shot // Television News and Collective Memory
- Chapter Two. Weather Citizens // Sunday, August 28
- Chapter Three. These Are the First Pictures from the Air // Monday, August 29
- Chapter Four. The Sort of Disaster Humans Cause // Tuesday, August 30
- Chapter Five. The Walking Dead // Wednesday, August 31
- Chapter Six. Over My Drowned Body // Thursday, September 1
- Chapter Seven. Not Sure What Is the Truth or Rumor Anymore // Friday, September 2
- Chapter Eight. A Big Corner Turned // Saturday, September 3
- Chapter Nine. A Violent Day // Sunday, September 4
- Chapter Ten. 99 Percent of It Is Bullshit // The Weeks After
- Part Two Documentary
- Chapter Eleven. Familiar from Television // Documentary as Collected Memory
- Chapter Twelve. A Requiem in Four Acts // When the Levees Broke
- Chapter Thirteen. Ain’t Nobody Got What I Got // Trouble the Water
- Chapter Fourteen. How Can Our Past Help Us to Survive This Time? // Faubourg Treme
- Chapter Fifteen. We Were Not on the Map // A Village Called Versailles
- Chapter Sixteen. Our Mayor // Race
- Chapter Seventeen. Re-Occupying New Orleans // Land of Opportunity
- Chapter Eighteen. Disappeared People // Law & Disorder
- Part Three Fiction
- Chapter Nineteen. My Fiction Seems a Bit Inconsequential to Me Now // Treme’s Truth Claim
- Chapter Twenty. In the David Simon Business // Treme’s Mode of Production
- Chapter Twenty-one. The Continuance of Culture
- Chapter Twenty-two. All These Trucks Got Bodies? // Dramatizing Injustice
- Conclusion. Desitively Katrina
- Bibliography
- Films and Media
- Index