ISBN:
9780415980098
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Journalism in a Culture of Grief
DDC:
302.230973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this growing collective preoccupation with death in modern life; few scholars, however, have studied the central forum for the conveyance and construction of public grief today: news media. News reports about death have a powerful impact and cultural authority because they bring emotional immediacy to matters of fact, telling stories of real people wh
Description / Table of Contents:
Journalism in a Culture of Grief; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: DISASTER, TRAUMA, AND RESPECT FOR THE DEAD; Chapter 1 At War With Nature: Coverage of Natural Disaster Fatalities; Chapter 2 Death Rites Interrupted: Responsibility and Remembrance in Coverage of the Tri-State Crematory Scandal and Hurricane Katrina; Chapter 3 Who Speaks for the Dead? Authority and Authenticity in News Coverage of the Amish School Shootings; PART II: LESSONS LEARNED FROM LIFE STORIES
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4 Life and Death in a Small Town: Cultural Values and Memory in Community Newspaper ObituariesChapter 5 "It Takes a Sinner to Appreciate the Blinding Glare of Grace": Redeeming the "Dark" Celebrity; Chapter 6 "We Can t Keep Losing Our Kids": Fear, Blame, and Mourning in Press Coverage of Teen Deaths; Chapter 7 Mourning "Men Joined in Peril and Purpose": Working-Class Heroism in News Report of the Sago Miners' Story; PART III: THE JOURNALISM OF RITUAL AND TRIBUTE; Chapter 8 "Portraits of Grief" and Stories That Heal: The Public Funeral for Victims of September 11
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 Reporting on "A Grieving Army of Americans": Citizen Testimony in the Misremembering of Ronald ReaganChapter 10 "All the Fellows That Went on Before Me": Tribute, Memory, and Counter-Memory Among Veterans of "the Good War"; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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