In Debate: Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Television 10 Years on

[...]1 1 September 2001 happened in front of our collective media eyes. [...]the content of the memories is highly variable and even unusual. According to its director, Mary Marshall Clark, the majority of New Yorkers interviewed for the project 'did not agree with the official description of t...

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Published inCritical studies in television Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 79 - 98
Main Author McCabe, Ed. Janet
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 22.03.2012
Sage Publications Ltd. (UK)
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
International trade
Museums
Television
Terrorism
Torture
New York
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Summary:[...]1 1 September 2001 happened in front of our collective media eyes. [...]the content of the memories is highly variable and even unusual. According to its director, Mary Marshall Clark, the majority of New Yorkers interviewed for the project 'did not agree with the official description of their experiences' and particularly resisted those attempts to conflate the loss of life with heroism.23 For most of the New Yorkers interviewed, 9/11 remains a chaotic, random event that defies any singular explanation and resists all attempts at closure. [...]even if the emergence of new, more particular narratives of 9/11 were merely a function of industrial dynamics - a cynical ploy to exploit the memory of 9/11 as a branding opportunity - to dismiss the resulting products as 'trivial' out of hand would be a mistake.
ISSN:1749-6020
1749-6039
DOI:10.7227/CST.7.1.8