Tourists of history
Subtitle: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
By: Marita Sturken.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822341031; 9780822341222
Subjects: Collective memory -- United States; Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States; Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Social aspects -- United States; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States; National characteristics, American; Popular culture -- United States; Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Consuming fear and selling comfort; title: Citizens and survivors : cultural memory and Oklahoma City; title: The spectacle of death and the spectacle of grief : the execution of Timothy McVeigh; title: Tourism and "sacred ground" : the space of Ground Zero; title: Architectures of grief and the aesthetics of absence.