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Stories without borders : the Berlin Wall and the making of a global iconic event / Julia Sonnevend.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonnevend, Julia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989--Press coverage.
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
- Collective memory--History--20th century.
- Collective memory.
- Transnationalism--History--20th century.
- Transnationalism.
- Journalism--Social aspects--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- Journalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Storytelling--Social aspects--History--20th century.
- Storytelling.
- Storytelling--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Storytelling--Political aspects.
- History.
- Storytelling--Social aspects.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects.
- Journalism--Political aspects.
- Journalism--Social aspects.
- Press coverage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What comes to be known and seen as a global iconic event? Focusing on news coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and on contemporary retellings of the event, Julia Sonnevend discusses how storytellers build up certain events so that people remember them for a long time. The East German border opening that we know as the "fall of the Berlin Wall" was in fact unintentional, confusing, and prompted in part by misleading media coverage of bureaucratic missteps. But its global message is not about luck or accident or happenstance in history. Incarnated as a global iconic event, the fall of the Berlin Wall has come to communicate the momentary power that ordinary people can have. The event's story, branded as a simple phrase, a short narrative and a recognizable visual scene, provides people from China to Israel to the United States with a powerful social myth. This myth shapes our debates about separation walls and fences, borders, and refugees, and the possibilities of human freedom to this day. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. Events in Media
- 2. Global Iconic Events : The Five Dimensions of Transnational Storytelling
- 3. Foundation
- 4. Mythologization
- 5. Condensation
- 6. Counter-narration
- 7. Remediation
- 8. Stories Without Borders : Thinking With Global Iconic Events
- Notes on Research Methods.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sonnevend, Julia, author. Stories without borders.
- ISBN:
- 9780190604325
- 0190604328
- 9780190604332
- 0190604336
- 9780190604349
- 0190604344
- Publisher Number:
- 99981665458
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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