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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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