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Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America´s Decade of Disaster

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Description for Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America´s Decade of Disaster Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFC; JKSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 280.

Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the 2008 financial crisis. In Consuming Catastrophe, Timothy Recuber presents a unique and provocative look at how these four very different disasters took a similar path through public consciousness. He explores the myriad ways we engage with and negotiate our feelings about disasters and tragedies—from omnipresent media broadcasts to relief fund efforts and promises to “Never Forget.”  

Recuber explains how a specific and “real” kind of emotional connection to the victims becomes a crucial element in the creation, use, ... Read more

The ineffability of disasters makes them a spectacular and emotional force in contemporary American culture. Consuming Catastrophe provides a lively analysis of the themes and meanings of tragedy and the emotions it engenders in the representation, mediation and consumption of disasters.

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Product Details

Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439913703
SKU
V9781439913703
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About Timothy Recuber
Timothy Recuber is a postdoctoral lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program at Princeton University.

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