Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History"Iconic Events: Media, Power, and Politics in Retelling History examines the processes of collective memory surrounding traumatic events that have been deemed iconic in American culture. Leavy investigates the social and market forces that have shaped the meanings and enduring significance of events that have captured the public's imagination, including the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, and September 11. Iconic Events focuses on three interpretive phases that serve to mold public perception of these events: journalistic representations, political appropriations, and popular adaptations. Leavy explores the processes by which traumatic events are made mythic in the public eye. Iconic Events is essential for collective memory scholars and undergraduate courses in communications, American studies, history, and sociology, as well as the general reader."--Jacket. |
Contents
Iconic Events Public Imagination and Social Memory | 1 |
Historical Sketches of the Events | 33 |
The Represented Event Journalisms Initial Spin | 63 |
The Representational Event Political Appropriations | 107 |
Iconic Events in Popular Culture | 149 |
The Significance of Iconic Events | 187 |
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