Media representations of September 11 /

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Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Description:viii, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Crime, media, and popular culture
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5059980
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Other authors / contributors:Chermak, Steven M.
Bailey, Frankie Y.
Brown, Michelle, 1971-
ISBN:0275980448 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-250) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Chapter 1.. Introduction
  • Part I.. Theoretical Overview
  • Chapter 2.. Holy War in the Media: Images of Jihad
  • Chapter 3.. Between Enemies and Traitors: Black Press Coverage of September 11 and the Predicaments of National "Others"
  • Chapter 4.. Commodifying September 11: Advertising, Myth, and Hegemony
  • Chapter 5.. Rituals of Trauma: How the Media Fabricated September 11
  • Part II.. News Texts and Cultural Resonance
  • Chapter 6.. "America under Attack": CNN's Verbal and Visual Framing of September 11
  • Chapter 7.. Internet News Representations of September 11: Archival Impulse in the Age of Information
  • Chapter 8.. Reporting, Remembering, and Reconstructing September 11, 2001
  • Chapter 9.. Creating Memories: Exploring How Narratives Help Define the Memorialization of Tragedy
  • Part III.. Popular Narratives
  • Chapter 10.. Step Aside, Superman ... This Is a Job for [Captain] America! Comic Books and Superheroes Post September 11
  • Chapter 11.. Of Heroes and Superheroes
  • Chapter 12.. Narrative Reconstruction at Ground Zero
  • Chapter 13.. Agony and Art: The Songs of September 11
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Contributors