qThis collection of essays explores the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and a range of media forms, assessing how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures qKatrinaq has come to represent. Looking closely at the organization of public memory of Katrina, this collection provides a timely and intellectually fruitful assessment of the complex ways in which media forms and national events are currently entangled. The contributors explore how Hurricane Katrina is positioned at the intersection of numerous early twenty-first century crisis narratives centralizing uncertainties about race, class, region, government and public safetyq20 In his essay for this volumeJeffScheible turns to a set ofmore diffuse and less direct iterations, analyzing Katrinaa#39;s online ... and aI Survived Hurricane Katrina and All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt (And a Plasma TV, and A DVD Player, etc. etc .)anbsp;...
Title | : | Old and New Media After Katrina |
Author | : | Diane Negra |
Publisher | : | Palgrave Macmillan - 2010-08-31 |
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