Flood of Images : : Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina /

Flood of Images : : Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina / / Bernie Cook.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Cook, Bernie,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (430 p.)
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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

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