Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
by
Ned O'Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bloody, fiery spectacles—the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK’s assassination—have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the “where were you when” question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these spectacles so packed with meaning?
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