The Selling of 9/11 How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity,9781403968173

The Selling of 9/11 How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity

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ISBN13: 9781403968173
ISBN10: 1403968179
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-09-03
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

From American flag decals and replicas of the World Trade Center to an emotionally fueled advertising campaign for The New York Times , the marketing and commodification of September 11 reveals the contradictory processes by which consumers in the U.S. (and around the world) communicate and construct national identity through cultural and symbolic goods. Contributed essays take critical stock of the role that consumer goods, media and press outlets, commercial advertising, marketers, and corporate public relations have played in shaping cultural memory of a national tragedy.

Author Biography

Dana Heller is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her previous books are The Feminization of Quest Romance: Radical Departures, Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture, and Cross Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Consuming 9/11
1(26)
Dana Heller
Wounded Nation, Broken Time
27(27)
James Trimarco
Molly Hurley Depret
``Chosen to be Witness'': The Exceptionalism of 9/11
54(21)
Øyvind Vagnes
Advertisements for Itself: The New York Times, Norman Rockwell, and the New Patriotism
75(22)
Francis A. Frascina
The Comfort Zone: Japan's Media Marketing of 9/11
97(22)
Yoneyuki Sugita
Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11
119(36)
Lynn Spigel
The Country Connection: Country Music, 9/11, and the War on Terrorism
155(19)
William Hart
``Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore'': U.S. Consumers, Wal-Mart, and the Commodification of Patriotism
174(26)
Jennifer Scanlon
Mourning, Monomyth and Memorabilia: Consumer Logics of Collecting 9/11
200(21)
Mick Broderick
Mark Gibson
Social Fear and the Terrorism Survival Guide
221(12)
Joe Lockard
Home Invasion and Hollywood Cinema: David Fincher's Panic Room
233(21)
Bianca Nielsen
Cynical Nationalism
254(34)
Thomas Foster
Contributors 288(3)
Index 291

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