Remembering Diana
Subtitle: cultural memory and the reinvention of authority
By: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780230320260
Subjects: Collective memory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; British National characteristics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Popular culture; Influence; Civilization; Mass media; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; History
Description: "Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identification and belonging in which communities came together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface: Embodying Memories: Echoes of Diana and the Re-invention of Authority; title: Introduction: Post-traditional Imaginations and Cultural Memories of Grief; title: Cultural Memories, Myths, Icons and Images; title: Shock, Public Grief and Spaces of Belonging; title: Authority, Masculinities and Emotional Lives; title: Citizenships, Multicultures and 'Community'; title: Grief, Public Space and 'People's Power'; title: Symbolic Resistance, Love and Relationship; title: Cultural Memories, Vulnerability and Human Values; title: Democracy, 'New Britain', Freedom and Self-Invention; title: Authority, Recognition, Voice and the Media; title: Conclusion: Postmodern Identities, Citizenships and the Re-invention of Authority; title: Bibliography; title: Index.