Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-400) and index.
Contents:
Public culture, icons, and iconoclasts -- The borders of the genre : Migrant mother and the Times Square kiss -- Performing civic identity : flag raisings at Iwo Jima and Ground Zero -- Dissent and emotional management : Kent State -- Trauma and public memory : accidental napalm -- Liberal representation and global order : Tiananmen Square -- Ritualizing modernity's gamble : the Hindenburg and Challenger explosions -- Conclusion: Visual democracy.
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