Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History

by Patricia Leavy

Book Overview

Iconic Events explores the social forces that have shaped the meanings around and enduring significance of events that have captured the public's imagination, including: Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, and September 11th. The book focuses on three interpretive phases including journalistic representations, political appropriations, and popular adaptations and pays particular attention to the development of dominant and resistive event narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739115197
• ISBN13: 9780739115190
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"