September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma write by Christine Muller. This book was released on 2017-01-20. September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change. The attacks confounded the traditionally dominant narrative of the American Dream, which has persistently and pervasively featured optimism and belief in a just world that affirms and rewards self-determination. This shattering of a worldview fundamental to mainstream experience and cultural understanding in the United States has manifested as a cultural trauma throughout popular culture in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Popular press oral histories, literary fiction, television, and film are among the multiple, ubiquitous sites evidencing preoccupations with existential crisis, vulnerability, and moral ambivalence, with fate, no-win scenarios, and anti-heroes now pervading commonly-told and readily-accessible stories. Christine Muller examines how popular culture affords sites for culturally-traumatic events to manifest and how readers, viewers, and other audiences negotiate their fallout.
Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11
Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 write by Christina Cavedon. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11, Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 disclose about American culture. Offering a comparative reading of pre- and post-9/11 literary, public, and academic discourses, she deconstructs the still commonly held belief that cultural repercussions of the attacks primarily testify to a cultural trauma in the wake of the collectively witnessed media event. She innovatively re-interprets discourses to be symptomatic of a malaise which had afflicted American culture already prior to 9/11 and can best be approached with melancholia as an analytical concept.
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity write by Jeffrey C. Alexander. This book was released on 2004-03-22. Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Five sociologists develop a theoretical model of 'cultural trauma' & build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new & binding understandings of social responsibility.
Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism
Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 2003-08-26. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised questions about the impact on the psychological health of the nation and how well the public health infrastructure is able to meet the psychological needs that will likely result. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism highlights some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides possible options for intervention. The committee offers an example for a public health strategy that may serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated. The report includes recommendations for the training and education of service providers, ensuring appropriate guidelines for the protection of service providers, and developing public health surveillance for preevent, event, and postevent factors related to psychological consequences.
Photography and September 11th
Photography and September 11th - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Photography and September 11th write by Jennifer Good. This book was released on 2020-09-13. Photography and September 11th available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is all but impossible to think of September 11th 2001 and not, at the same time, recall an image. The overwhelmingly visual coverage in the world's media pictured a spectacle of terror, from images of the collapsing towers, to injured victims and fatigued firefighters. In the days, weeks and months that followed, this vast collection of photographs continued to circulate relentlessly. This book investigates the psychological impact of those photographs on a stunned American audience. Drawing on trauma theory, this book asks whether the prolonged exposure of audience to photographs was cathartic or damaging. It explores how first the collective memory of the event was established in the American psyche and then argues that through repetitive use of the most powerful pictures, the culture industry created a dangerously simple 9/11 metanarrative. At the same time, people began to reclaim and use photography to process their own feelings, most significantly in 'communities' of photographic memorial websites. Such exercises were widely perceived as democratic and an aid to recovery. This book interrogates that assumption, providing a new understanding of how audiences see and process news photography in times of crisis.
