Old and new media after Katrina
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political a...
| Other Authors: | Negra, Diane, 1966-, Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Uncovering the bones: Hurricane Katrina and contemporary crime television? / Lindsay Steenberg
- The Big Apple & The Big Easy: articulating proximity and disaster in visual culture? / Joy V. Fuqua
- Expanded medium: NPR, national space, 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, outsider activists and urban localism: the case of Helen Hill / Dan Streible
- In desperate need (of a makeover): the neoliberal project and the social body in distress / Brenda Weber
- From Mr. Pregnant to Mr. President: prepositioning Katrina online / Jeff Streible.