Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina

Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina

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  • On 10th April 2015

In Flood of Images, Bernie Cook offers the most in-depth, wide-ranging, and carefully argued analysis of the mediation and meanings of Katrina. He engages in innovative, close, and comparative visual readings of news coverage on CNN, Fox News, and NBC; documentaries and the HBO drama Treme. Cook examines the production practices that shaped Katrina-as-media-event, exploring how those choices structured the possible memories and meanings of Katrina and how the media’s memory-making has been contested. In Flood of Images, Cook intervenes in the ongoing process of remembering and understanding Katrina.

I had the honor of being interviewed by Bernie Cook about my film Circles of Confusion  for his book.

The book is available for purchase at University of Texas Press.