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The Kennedy Assassination
Peter Knight
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Description for The Kennedy Assassination
Hardback. An authoritative critical introduction to the way the event of JFK's assassination has been represented in a range of discourses. Editor(s): Woods, Tim; Grice, Helena. Series: Representing American Events. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JKV; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
November 22nd 1963, Dealey Plaza As a seminal event in late twentieth-century American history, the Kennedy assassination has permeated the American and world consciousness in a wide variety of ways. It has long fascinated American writers, filmmakers and artists, and this book offers an authoritative critical introduction to the way the event has been constructed in a range of discourses. It looks at a variety of historical, political and cultural attempts to understand Kennedy's death. Representations include: journalism from the time; historical accounts and memoirs; official investigations, government reports and sociological inquiries; the huge number of conspiracy-minded interpretations; novels, plays ... Read more
November 22nd 1963, Dealey Plaza As a seminal event in late twentieth-century American history, the Kennedy assassination has permeated the American and world consciousness in a wide variety of ways. It has long fascinated American writers, filmmakers and artists, and this book offers an authoritative critical introduction to the way the event has been constructed in a range of discourses. It looks at a variety of historical, political and cultural attempts to understand Kennedy's death. Representations include: journalism from the time; historical accounts and memoirs; official investigations, government reports and sociological inquiries; the huge number of conspiracy-minded interpretations; novels, plays ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Representing American Events
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748624102
SKU
V9780748624102
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About Peter Knight
Peter Knight is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. He is author of Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files (2000) and editor of Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America (2002), Conspiracy Theories in American Culture: An Encyclopedia (2003) and Fakes and Forgeries (2004).
Reviews for The Kennedy Assassination
'Peter Knight has done the impossible - he has written a very interesting and readable book on the Kennedy Assassination. Comprehensive though never obsessive, sharply analytic but not cranky or opinionated, and written in a lively yet authoritative style, The Kennedy Assassination will prove indispensable not only to students and researchers of American politics and culture over the last half ... Read more