Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event

by Julia Sonnevend

Book Overview

How do stories of particular events turn into global myths, while others fade away? What becomes known and seen as a global iconic event? In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic significance. Focusing on journalists covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and on subsequent retellings of the event in a variety of ways - from Legoland reenactments to slabs of the Berlin Wall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019060431X
• ISBN13: 9780190604318
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"