Old and New Media after Katrina
About this book
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. 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 safety. 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 hopelessly entangled.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Old and New Media after Katrina
- 2 Uncovering the Bones: Forensic Approaches to Hurricane Katrina on Crime Television
- 3 The Big Apple and the Big Easy: Trauma, Proximity, and Home in New (and Old) Media
- 4 Expanded Medium: National Public Radio and Katrina Web Memorials
- 5 Life Preservers: The Neoliberal Enterprise of Hurricane Katrina Survival in Trouble the Water, House M.D., and When the Levees Broke
- 6 Discovery Channel’s Nature-Reality Hybrid Shows: Representing Survival in the Wake of Katrina
- 7 Exile, Return, and New Economy Subjectivity in Last Holiday
- 8 Media Artists, Local Activists, and Outsider Archivists: The Case of Helen Hill
- 9 In Desperate Need (of a Makeover): The Neoliberal Project, the Design Expert, and the Post-Katrina Social Body in Distress
- 10 From Mr. Pregnant to Mr. President: Prepositioning Katrina Online
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index