9/11 culture : America under construction

"Offering balanced examinations of a catalogue of artifacts culled from high (and low) culture - film, music, photos, memorials, comic strips, fiction, telethons, poetry - Melnick probes the silly as well as the superseding ways that 9/11 has exerted a shaping force on a wide range of practices, from the politics of femininity to the poetics of redemption. The ample pedagogical material - film and discographies, introduction, and teachers preface - accompanying 9/11 Culture suggest to users the many ways one might begin tracking the cultural resonances of 9/11"--Pub. desc."@en
"Offering balanced examinations of a catalog of artifacts culled from high (and low) culture - film, music, photos, memorials, comic strips, fiction, telethons, poetry--Melnick probes the silly as well as the superseding ways that 9/11 has exerted a shaping force on a wide range of practices, from the politics of femininity to the poetics of redemption. The ample pedagogical material--film and discographies, introduction, and teachers preface - accompanying 9/11 Culture suggest to users the many ways one might begin tracking the cultural resonances of 9/11."