The selling of 9/11 : how a national tragedy became a commodity

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Author:

Heller, Dana A. (Dana Alice), 1959-

ISBN:

9781403968173

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Physical Description:

vi, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: Consuming of 9/11 / Dana Heller -- Wounded nation, broken time: [trauma, tourism, and the selling of Ground Zero] / James Trimarco & Molly Hurley Depret -- "Chosen to be witness": the exceptionalism of 9/11 / Øyvind Vågnes -- Advertisements for itself: The New York Times, Norman Rockwell, and the New Patriotism / Francis Frascina -- The comfort zone : Japanese mass media and the meaning of September 11 / Yoneyuki Sugita -- Entertainment wars: television culture after 9/11 / Lynn Spigel -- The country connection : country music, 9/11, and the war on terrorism / William Hart -- "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore": U.S. consumers, Wal-Mart, and the commodification of patriotism / Jennifer Scanlon -- Mourning, monomyth, and memorabilia: consumer logics of collecting 9/11 / Mick Broderick and Mark Gibson -- Social fear and the Terrorism survival guide / Joe Lockard -- Home invasion and Hollywood cinema: David Fincher's Panic room / Bianca Nielsen -- Cynical nationalism / Thomas Foster.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.

National characteristics, American.

Consumer behavior -- United States.

Patriotism -- United States.

Memory -- Social aspects.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-

Added Author:

Heller, Dana A. (Dana Alice), 1959-

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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.