Hbo''s Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis - The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans

This book argues that fictional television can educate audiences on complex communities and issues long after it has faded from the news cycle. Treme, to date, remains one of the most notable experiments of how post-Katrina New Orleans communities struggle to hold on to their cultural and historical essence.

List of contents

Forward - Dave Walker, TV writer, The Times-Picayune
Preface - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon Roberts

Chapter 1: Introduction - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon Roberts

Treme: Power and Representation

Chapter 2: Selling Tremé through the Home Box Office - Shearon Roberts
Chapter 3: Treme Tourism and Governing the Post-Katrina City - Helen Morgan Parmett
Chapter 4: New Tourist Sights, Slights, and Sleights-of-Hand in Treme - Lynnell Thomas
Chapter 5: Racialization of Urban Spaces in Treme - Dominique M. Gendrin
Chapter 6: Treme and Its Engaged Audience - Catherine Dessinges
Chapter 7: Social Change and Networks in Treme - Kristin Shamas

Treme: Culture and Representation

Chapter 8: Treme: Reclaiming the Foundations of Music in Treme - Gregory Adamo
Chapter 9: Treme as an Experimental TV Series - Ariane Hudelet
Chapter 10: Multiple Representations of Mardi Gras in Treme - Aurelie Godet
Chapter 11: Treme: Narrative Blackness in the Great American Cable Television Drama - Johnny Jones
Chapter 12: A Feminist Perspective on Treme - Wendy Hajjar

About the author

Dominique Gendrin is professor emeritus in communication studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Catherine Dessinges is associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Studies at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.

Shearon Roberts is assistant professor of mass communication at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Product details

• Authors: Dominique Dessinges Gendrin
• Assisted by: Catherine Dessinges (Editor), Dessinges Catherine (Editor), Dominique Gendrin (Editor), Gendrin Dominique (Editor), Shearon Roberts (Editor), Roberts Shearon (Editor), Dave Walker (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781498545624
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4562-4
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Louisiana, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Cultural Representations, David Simon, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Mardi Gras, New Orleans Jazz, Post-Disaster Recovery, Race and Space, Treme, TV Series, Social impact of disasters, Urban communities, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), Urban communities / city life