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Description for The Selling of 9/11
Hardcover. Editor(s): Heller, Dana. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFD; JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
The Selling of 9/11 argues that the marketing and commodification of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reveal the contradictory processes by which consumers in the United States (and around the world) use, communicate, and construct national identity and their sense of national belonging through cultural and symbolic goods. Contributors illuminate these processes and make important connections between myths of nation, practices of mourning, theories of trauma, and the politics of post-9/11 consumer culture. Their essays take critical stock of the role that consumer goods, media and press outlets, commercial advertising, marketers and corporate public relations have played in ... Read more
The Selling of 9/11 argues that the marketing and commodification of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reveal the contradictory processes by which consumers in the United States (and around the world) use, communicate, and construct national identity and their sense of national belonging through cultural and symbolic goods. Contributors illuminate these processes and make important connections between myths of nation, practices of mourning, theories of trauma, and the politics of post-9/11 consumer culture. Their essays take critical stock of the role that consumer goods, media and press outlets, commercial advertising, marketers and corporate public relations have played in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403968173
SKU
V9781403968173
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About N/A
DANA HELLER is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Reviews for The Selling of 9/11
"The Selling of 9/11 lays out for us in clear language exactly how the terrible events of that day led to a wholesale commodification of US nationalism. Whether or not you think the world changed on September 11 2001, you need to read this book. It will change the way you think about those events." - Toby Miller, University of ... Read more