Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events,9780879728342

Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events

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ISBN13: 9780879728342
ISBN10: 0879728345
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
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Summary

The essays in this collection present communities beset by unexpected social and physical events. Some outline immediate responses that soon pass and some that will not go away. Who would have foreseen that Elvis would be a phenomenon apparently as lasting as the faces on Mount Rushmore? Cultural history will not allow us to forget the H. G. Wells account of the Martian attack, nor can we ever forget the continued terror of the Chernobyl explosion. Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events catalogues on the Geiger counter of human emotions societal reactions to events both earthshaking and culture-disturbing.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(21)
Ray B. Browne
Arthur G. Neal
Dead or Alive: Conspiracy Theories as a Form of Public Mourning
21(22)
Randall Clark
Fall of an American Adam: The Death of John F. Kennedy Junior
43(16)
Mark Bendall
An Oddly Suitable Death (Princess Di)
59(14)
Joan Bridgman
Reconstructing the King: Death Narratives of Elvis Presley in the 1980s
73(15)
Christopher R. Smit
Columbine: An Exploration of the Hyperreal in Televisual Chaos
88(14)
Christopher R. Smit
The Oklahoma City Bombing: Our Responses, Our Memories
102(20)
Susan Koppelman
The [Fallen] Body: The Crisis of Meaning in Sankai Juku's ``Jomon Sho''
122(15)
Michelle Dent
Toward a Methodology of Disasters: The Case of the Princess Sophia
137(13)
K. S. Coates
W. R. Morrison
The Johnstown Flood (1889): Magnates, Mill Workers, Mud, and Misery
150(22)
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Bangs and Whimpers: The German Public and Two Zeppelin Disasters, 1908-1937
172(10)
Guillaume de Syon
The Collapse of the Tay Bridge: Theodor Fontane, William McGonagall, and the Poetic Response to Humanity's First Technological Disaster
182(14)
Edward C. Smith III
The Great Boston Molasses Flood: Newspaper Coverage and the Shaping of an Extraordinary Event
196(14)
Susan Doll
David Morrow
Mars Attacks! Wells, Welles, and Radio Panic: Or, the Story of the Century
210(12)
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Extraordinary Nature as the Holy
222(10)
Edward R. Gray
Popular Culture and Mt. St. Helens: A Study of a Response
232(11)
Jack Estes
Dennis Shaw
Public Perception and Assessment of the Communities' States of Living in the Major Disaster Areas in Russia
243(14)
Alla Mozgovaya
Boris Porfiriev
Epilogue 257(8)
Ray B. Browne
Arthur G. Neal
Contributors 265

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