9/11 Culture - America Under Construction

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Melnick is Associate Professor of American Studies at Babson College. He is author of two books on Black-Jewish relations: A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song (1999) and Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South (2000). Melnick is an active public speaker has appeared many times on local and national radio and television. Klappentext 9/11 Culture serves as a timely and accessible introduction to the complexities of American culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.* Gives balanced examinations of a broad catalogue of artefacts from film, music, photography, literary fiction, and other popular arts* Investigates the ways that 9/11 has exerted a shaping force on a wide range of practices, from the politics of femininity to the poetics of redemption* Includes pedagogical material to assist understanding and teaching, including film and discographies, and a useful teachers' preface Zusammenfassung 9/11 Culture serves as a useful introduction to the complexities of American culture in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Written in an accessible language, 9/11 Culture constructs a number of common-sense approaches for the study of all of the works of art high, low, and in-between. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vi Introduction: 9/11 Questions (and Answers) 1 1 Rumors 25 2 Telethon 50 3 Snapshots 64 4 Rising 78 5 Us 94 6 Tools 122 7 Shout-Outs 141 Bibliography 160 Appendix 1: 9/11 in Film and on Television 169 Appendix 2: 9/11 Music 172 A Note to Teachers 177 Index 180

Product details

• Authors: J Melnick, Jeff Melnick, Jeffrey Melnick, Jeffrey (Babson College Melnick, Melnick Jeffrey
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9781405173728
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-7372-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Soziologie, Kultursoziologie, Amerikanistik, Kulturwissenschaften, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, American Studies, Medienforschung, Communication & Media Studies, Kommunikation u. Medienforschung