Title The iconoclastic imagination : image, catastrophe, and economy in America from the Kennedy assassination to September 11 / Ned O'Gorman

Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Image -- The neoliberal legitimation crisis -- The iconoclastic sublime -- Catastrophe -- Zapruder -- Challenger -- 9/11 -- Economy -- America's new look -- (Neo)liberal genealogies -- Conclusion Summary Bloody, fiery spectacles - the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination - have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the 'where were you when' question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. But why are these spectacles so packed with meaning? In 'The Iconoclastic Imagination', Ned O'Gorman approaches each of these moments as an image of icon-destruction that give us distinct ways to imagine social existence in American life Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination -- Public opinion SUBJECT Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 fast Subject Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents -- Public opinion SUBJECT Challenger (Spacecraft) fast Subject Social perception -- United States Neoliberalism -- United States Iconoclasm -- United States Disasters -- United States -- Public opinion September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Public opinion PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. Assassination -- Public opinion Iconoclasm Neoliberalism Public opinion Social perception United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226310374 022631037X

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