| Description |
xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Iconic events : public imagination and social memory -- Historical sketches of events -- The represented event : journalism's initial spin -- The representational event : political appropriations -- Iconic events in popular culture -- The significance of iconic events |
| Summary |
"Iconic Events: Media, Power, and Politics in Retelling History examines the processes of collective memory surrounding traumatic events that have been deemed iconic in American culture. Leavy investigates the social and market forces that have shaped the meanings and enduring significance of events that have captured the public's imagination, including the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, and September 11. Iconic Events focuses on three interpretive phases that serve to mold public perception of these events: journalistic representations, political appropriations, and popular adaptations. Leavy explores the processes by which traumatic events are made mythic in the public eye. Iconic Events is essential for collective memory scholars and undergraduate courses in communications, American studies, history, and sociology, as well as the general reader."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- United States.
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Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States -- Historiography.
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| LC no. |
2007006895 |
| ISBN |
9780739115190 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739115197 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780739115206 paperback alkaline paper |
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0739115200 paperback alkaline paper |
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