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Consuming catastrophe : mass culture in America's decade of disaster / Timothy Recuber.
Van Pelt Library PN4888.D57 R43 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Recuber, Timothy, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Press coverage--United States.
- Disasters.
- Disasters--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media and culture--United States.
- Mass media and culture.
- Civilization.
- Disasters--Social aspects.
- Disasters--Press coverage.
- United States.
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- United States--Civilization--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 214 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- A history of catastrophe : media, mass culture and authenticity
- The limits of empathy : Hurricane Katrina and the Virtinia Tech shootings
- The authenticity of fear : September 11 and the financial crisis
- Memory as therapy : September 11, Hurricane Katrina and online communication
- The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and disasters still to come.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439913697
- 1439913692
- 9781439913703
- 1439913706
- OCLC:
- 945648812
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