Mourning Diana - 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 Mourning Diana write by Adrian Kear. This book was released on 2002-01-22. Mourning Diana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global media coverage of the events following her death appeared to create an international 'community of mourning', popular reacions in fact reflected the complexities of the princess's public image and the tensions surrounding the popular conception of royalty. Mourning Diana examines the events which followed the death of Diana as a series of cultural-political phenomena, from the immediate aftermath as crowds gathered in public spaces and royal palaces, to the state funeral in Westminister Abbey, examining the performance of grief and the involvement of the global media in the creation of narratives and spectacles relating to the commemoration of her life. Contributors investigate the complex iconic status of Diana, as a public figure able to sustain a host of alternative identifications, and trace the posthumous romanticisation of aspects of her life such as her charity activism and her relationship with Dodi al Fayed. The contributors argue that the events following the death of Diana dramatised a complex set of cultural tensions in which the boundaries dividing nationhood and citizenship, charity and activism, private feeling and public politics, were redrawn.
The Mourning for Diana
The Mourning for Diana - 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 The Mourning for Diana write by Tony Walter. This book was released on 2020-06-11. The Mourning for Diana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The unexpected death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in Paris on August 31st 1997 led to a period of mourning over the next week that took the world by surprise. Major institutions - the media, the royal family, the church, the police - for once had no pre-planned script. For the public, this was a story with an ending they had not anticipated. How did these institutions and the public create a cultural order in the face of such disorder? Both those involved in the mourning and those who objected to it struggled to understand the depth and breadth of emotion shaking Britain and the world. Mourning was focused on London, where Diana's body lay, and on Diana's home, Kensington Palace. Throughout the city and especially in Kensington Gardens, millions left shrines to the dead princess made of flowers, messages, teddy bears and other objects. In towns and villages around the UK, this was repeated. The mourning was also global, with media dominated by Diana's death in scores of countries. The funeral itself had a record-breaking world television audience, and messages of condolence floated around the globe in cyber-space. How unique was all this? Does it mark a shift in the culture of mourning, of the position of the monarchy, of the role of emotion in British culture? How does it compare with the mourning for other super-icons - JFK, Evita, Elvis, and Monroe? Was it media-induced hysteria? Or was it simply a magnification of normal mourning behaviour? Focusing on the extraordinary actions of millions of ordinary people, this book documents what happened and shows how a modern rational society coped with the unexpected in a proto-revolutionary week that left participants and objectors alike asking 'why did we behave like this?'
After Diana
After Diana - 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 After Diana write by Mandy Merck. This book was released on 1998-09-17. After Diana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the greatest public mourning this century. Leading cultural critics dissect the enormous welter of words and images to determine what can be made of this extraordinary response.,.
A Book of Remembrances
A Book of Remembrances - 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 A Book of Remembrances write by . This book was released on 1997-01-01. A Book of Remembrances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Requiem
Requiem - 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 Requiem write by Brian MacArthur. This book was released on 1997. Requiem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reprints over eighty journalistic tributes that appeared in the British press in response to the death of Princess Diana in August 1997.
