America's disaster culture : the production of natural disasters in literature and pop culture / Robert C. Bell and Robert M. Ficociello.

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Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural" disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bell, Robert C. (Author)
Ficociello, Robert (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2017.
Subjects:
Natural disasters > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
Disasters in literature.
Manners and customs.
Natural disasters > Social aspects.
United States.
Popular culture.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Literatur.
Naturkatastrophe > Motiv.
Massenkultur.
USA.
Physical Description:ix, 197 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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