{"product_id":"flood-of-images-media-memory-and-hurricane-katrina-paperback-softback-9781477302439","title":"Flood of Images; Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477302439","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFlood of Images\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedia, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernie Cook (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477302439, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e430 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of the city experienced the disaster as a media event, a flood of images pouring across television and computer screens. The twenty-four-hour news cycle created a surplus of representation that overwhelmed viewers and complicated understandings of the storm, the flood, and the aftermath. As time passed, documentary and fictional filmmakers took up the challenge of explaining what had happened in New Orleans, reaching beyond news reports to portray the lived experiences of survivors of Katrina. But while these narratives presented alternative understandings and more opportunities for empathy than TV news, Katrina remained a mediated experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFlood of Images\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernie Cook offers the most in-depth, wide-ranging, and carefully argued analysis of the mediation and meanings of Katrina. He engages in innovative, close, and comparative visual readings of news coverage on CNN, Fox News, and NBC; documentaries including Spike Lee’s \u003ci\u003eWhen the Levees Broke\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIf God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise\u003c\/i\u003e, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s \u003ci\u003eTrouble the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, and Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Elie’s \u003ci\u003eFaubourg Treme\u003c\/i\u003e; and the HBO drama \u003ci\u003eTreme\u003c\/i\u003e. Cook examines the production practices that shaped Katrina-as-media-event, exploring how those choices structured the possible memories and meanings of Katrina and how the media’s memory-making has been contested. In \u003ci\u003eFlood of Images\u003c\/i\u003e, Cook intervenes in the ongoing process of remembering and understanding Katrina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Where Y'at?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Television News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. There Is No Wide Shot. Television News and Collective Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Weather Citizens. Sunday, August 28\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. These Are the First Pictures from the Air. Monday, August 29\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Sort of Disaster Humans Cause. Tuesday, August 30\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. The Walking Dead. Wednesday, August 31\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Over My Drowned Body. Thursday, September 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Not Sure What Is the Truth or Rumor Anymore. Friday, September 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. A Big Corner Turned. Saturday, September 3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. A Violent Day. Sunday, September 4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. 99 Percent of It Is Bullshit. The Weeks After\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 2. Documentary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Familiar from Television. Documentary as Collected Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. A Requiem in Four Acts. When the Levees Broke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Ain't Nobody Got What I Got. Trouble the Water\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. How Can Our Past Help Us to Survive This Time? Faubourg Treme\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. We Were Not on the Map. A Village Called Versailles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Our Mayor. Race\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. Re-Occupying New Orleans. Land of Opportunity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 18. Disappeared People. Law \u0026amp; Disorder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 19. My Truth Seems a Bit Inconsequential to Me Now. Treme's Truth Claim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 20. In the David Simon Business. Treme's Mode of Production\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 21. The Continuance of Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 22. All These Trucks Got Bodies? Dramatizing Injustice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion. Desitively Katrina\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilms and Media\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589079167256,"sku":"9781477302439","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/flood-of-images-media-memory-and-hurricane-katrina-paperback-softback-9781477302439","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}