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Intermedial Representations of 9/11 in U.S. American and German Newspapers

Intermedial Representations of 9/11 in U.S. American and German Newspapers

Ehrenreich-Blazekovic, Susanne

Hardcover

Series: Regensburger Arbeiten Zur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik / Rege, Book 50

English as a Second LanguageGeneral ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 3631596685
ISBN13: 9783631596685
Publisher: Peter Lang D
Published: Apr 14 2010
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
For many weeks, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 dominated the newspapers which covered the consequences with an unprecedented immediateness. This study looks at diverging representations of 9/11 in U.S. and German newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung) and explores effects on its possible readerships. The impact of the attacks, forms of heroism, the enactment of leadership, various demonstrations of patriotism and grief as well as the textual and visual presentation of the attacks are analyzed in detail. These intermedial representations reaffirm or contest U.S. American grand narratives. While the German newspapers tend to focus on information and analysis, the U.S. papers tend to strengthen shattered U.S. American identity constructions. The study is based on nearly 2,000 newspaper articles and documents the wide scope of topics prevalent in the post-9/11 newspaper coverage.

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