| The Selling of 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Heller, D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403968179 ISBN-13: 9781403968173 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Terrorism - History | United States - 21st Century - Business & Economics | Consumer Behavior - General |
| Dewey: 973.931 |
| LCCN: 2005296377 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.7" W x 8.72" (0.98 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Selling of 9/11 argues that the marketing and commodification of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reveal the contradictory processes by which consumers in the United States (and around the world) use, communicate, and construct national identity and their sense of national belonging through cultural and symbolic goods. Contributors illuminate these processes and make important connections between myths of nation, practices of mourning, theories of trauma, and the politics of post-9/11 consumer culture. Their 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. |
