Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina

by Bernie Cook

Book Overview

Anyone 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477302433
• ISBN13: 9781477302439
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"