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1 online resource (221 pages) |
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American Culture Studies ; v. 10 |
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American studies (Transcript (Firm))
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| Contents |
Cover After the Storm; Contents; Introduction: The Fire Next Time; New Orleans Suite: A Photographic Essay; Documenting Stories of Reconstruction in New Orleans: Spike Lee and Jonathan Demme; Recycling and Surviving in Beasts of the Southern Wild: Screening Katrina as a Magic Realist Tale; Down in the Treme: Televising Man-made Natural Disaster in the New Millennium; Where They At? Bounce and Class in Treme; Dance Back From the Grave: Marc Cohn's and Jackson Browne's Musical Responses to Hurricane Katrina |
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Revisiting Place, the Memorial, and the Historical in Tom Piazza's Why New Orleans Matters and Natasha Trethewey s Beyond KatrinaNatural Hazards, Human Vulnerability: Teaching Hurricane Katrina Through Literary Nonfiction; Where Y'at Since the Storm?: Linguistic Effects of Hurricane Katrina; Life and Luck after Katrina: African American Men, Oral History, and Mentoring in New Orleans, 2010 to 2014; The Landscapes of Man: Ecological and Cultural Change Before Hurricane Katrina; Authors |
| Summary |
"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating consequences for the region, for New Orleans, and the United States have been negotiated in a growing number of cultural productions - among them Spike Lee's documentary film "When the Levees Broke", David Simon and Eric Overmyer's TV series "Treme", or Natasha Trethewey's poetry collection "Beyond Katrina". This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on these and other approaches to Hurricane Katrina and puts special emphasis on the intersect |
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America |
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American Studies |
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Cultural Studies |
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Culture |
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Fiction |
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Film |
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New Orleans |
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Politics |
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Race |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Political aspects -- United States
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- United States
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- In literature
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Emergency management -- Political aspects -- United States
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Emergency management -- Political aspects -- Louisiana
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Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- United States
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Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- Louisiana
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Disaster relief -- Political aspects
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Literature
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Politics and government
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Social aspects
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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Louisiana
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kindinger, Evangelia
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| ISBN |
9783839428931 |
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3839428939 |
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