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Author Sturken, Marita, 1957-

Title Tourists of history : memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero / Marita Sturken
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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 W'PONDS  973.93 Stu/Toh  AVAILABLE
 MELB  973.93 Stu/Toh  AVAILABLE
Description 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Consuming fear and selling comfort -- Citizens and survivors : cultural memory and Oklahoma City -- The spectacle of death and the spectacle of grief : the execution of Timothy McVeigh -- Tourism and "sacred ground" : the space of Ground Zero -- Architectures of grief and the aesthetics of absence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Collective memory -- United States.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995.
Popular culture -- United States.
Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Social aspects -- United States.
LC no. 2007018101
ISBN 9780822341031 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341222 (paperback: alk. paper)