Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-400) and index.
Contents
Public culture, icons, and iconoclasts -- The borders of the genre : Migrant mother and the Times Square kiss -- Performing civic identity : flag raisings at Iwo Jima and Ground Zero -- Dissent and emotional management : Kent State -- Trauma and public memory : accidental napalm -- Liberal representation and global order : Tiananmen Square -- Ritualizing modernity's gamble : the Hindenburg and Challenger explosions -- Conclusion: Visual democracy.
