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With innovative visual analysis of TV news coverage, documentaries such as Trouble the Water and When the Levees Broke, and the HBO series Treme, this book investigates how media representations both shaped and contested collective memories of Katrina.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Where Y'at?
Part 1. Television News
Chapter 1. There Is No Wide Shot. Television News and Collective Memory
Chapter 2. Weather Citizens. Sunday, August 28
Chapter 3. These Are the First Pictures from the Air. Monday, August 29
Chapter 4. The Sort of Disaster Humans Cause. Tuesday, August 30
Chapter 5. The Walking Dead. Wednesday, August 31
Chapter 6. Over My Drowned Body. Thursday, September 1
Chapter 7. Not Sure What Is the Truth or Rumor Anymore. Friday, September 2
Chapter 8. A Big Corner Turned. Saturday, September 3
Chapter 9. A Violent Day. Sunday, September 4
Chapter 10. 99 Percent of It Is Bullshit. The Weeks After
Part 2. Documentary
Chapter 11. Familiar from Television. Documentary as Collected Memory
Chapter 12. A Requiem in Four Acts. When the Levees Broke
Chapter 13. Ain't Nobody Got What I Got. Trouble the Water
Chapter 14. How Can Our Past Help Us to Survive This Time? Faubourg Treme
Chapter 15. We Were Not on the Map. A Village Called Versailles
Chapter 16. Our Mayor. Race
Chapter 17. Re-Occupying New Orleans. Land of Opportunity
Chapter 18. Disappeared People. Law & Disorder
Part 3. Fiction
Chapter 19. My Truth Seems a Bit Inconsequential to Me Now. Treme's Truth Claim
Chapter 20. In the David Simon Business. Treme's Mode of Production
Chapter 21. The Continuance of Culture
Chapter 22. All These Trucks Got Bodies? Dramatizing Injustice
Conclusion. Desitively Katrina
Bibliography
Films and Media
Index
About the author
By Bernie Cook
Summary
With innovative visual analysis of TV news coverage, documentaries such as Trouble the Water and When the Levees Broke, and the HBO series Treme, this book investigates how media representations both shaped and contested collective memories of Katrina.
