9/11 Culture serves as a timely and accessible introduction to the complexities of American culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. * Gives balanced examinations of a broad catalogue of artefacts from film, music, photography, literary fiction, and other popular arts * Investigates the 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 * Includes pedagogical material to assist understanding and teaching, including film and discographies, and a useful teachers' preface
9/11 Culture serves as a timely and accessible introduction to the complexities of American culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. * Gives balanced examinations of a broad catalogue of artefacts from film, music, photography, literary fiction, and other popular arts * Investigates the 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 * Includes pedagogical material to assist understanding and teaching, including film and discographies, and a useful teachers' preface
Jeffrey Melnick is Associate Professor of American Studies at Babson College. He is author of two books on Black-Jewish relations: A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song (1999) and Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South (2000). Melnick is an active public speaker has appeared many times on local and national radio and television.
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Acknowledgments. Introduction: 9 11 Questions (and Answers). 1. Rumors. 2. Telethon. 3. Snapshots. 4. Rising. 5. Us. 6. Tools. 7. Shout-Outs. Bibliography. Appendix 1: 9 11 in Film and on Television. Appendix 2: 9 11 Music. A Note to Teachers. Index.