America's Disaster Culture
The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of natural disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture. In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed and minute detail, and Americans begin forming, interpreting, and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with fellow citizens and people worldwide. America's Disaster Culture is not policy, management, or relief oriented. It offers an analytical fr…
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Weitere Autoren: Ficociello, Robert M.
- ISBN: 978-1-62892-463-3
- EAN: 9781628924633
- Produktnummer: 29846369
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'563 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Robert C. Bell is Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum center and Instructor in the English Department at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the Fiction Editor of the New Orleans Review.
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