HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis (eBook)

The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans

Catherine Dessinges, Dominique Gendrin, Shearon Roberts (Herausgeber)

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2017
374 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4561-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book argues that fictional television can educate audiences on complex communities and issues long after it has faded from the news cycle. Treme, to date, remains one of the most notable experiments of how post-Katrina New Orleans communities struggle to hold on to their cultural and historical essence. The David Simon–HBO–great American city television formula continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news coverage of the aftermath. The other will be the intimate portrayal of the determination of New Orleans residents to rebuild and recover their lives. HBO's Treme offers outsiders an inside look into why New Orleanians refused to abandon a place that many questioned should not be rebuilt after the levees failed. This critically acclaimed series expanded the boundaries of television making in its format, plot, casting, use of music, and realism-in-fictionalized-TV. However, Treme is not just a story for the outside gaze on New Orleans. It was a very local, collaborative experience where the show's creators sought to enlist the city in a commemorative project. Treme allowed many in the city who worked as principals, extras, and who tuned in as avid viewers to heal from the devastation of the disaster as they experimented with art, imitating life, imitating art. This book examines the impact of HBOs Treme not just as television making, but in the sense in which television provides a window to our worlds. The book pulls together scholarship in media, communications, gender, area studies, political economy, critical studies, African American studies and music to explain why Treme was not just about television.

Autor

Dominique Gendrin is professor emeritus in communication studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.Catherine Dessinges is associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Studies at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.Shearon Roberts is assistant professor of mass communication at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Inhalt

The Times-PicayuneDominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsDominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsTreme: Power and RepresentationShearon RobertsTreme Tourism and Governing the Post-Katrina City - Helen Morgan ParmettTreme - Lynnell ThomasTreme - Dominique M. Gendrin Treme and Its Engaged Audience - Catherine Dessinges Treme - Kristin ShamasTreme: Culture and RepresentationTreme: Reclaiming the Foundations of Music in Treme - Gregory AdamoTreme as an Experimental TV Series - Ariane HudeletTreme - Aurelie GodetTreme: Narrative Blackness in the Great American Cable Television Drama - Johnny JonesTreme - Wendy Hajjar

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2017
• Co-Autor: Gregory Adamo, Aurelie Godet, Wendy Hajjar, Ariane Hudelet, Johnny Jones, Helen Morgan Parmett, Kristin Shamas, Lynnell Thomas
• Vorwort: Dave Walker
• Zusatzinfo: 19 Illustrations including: - 18 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Representations • David Simon • Davis Simon • HBO • Hurricane Katrina • Mardi Gras • new orleans jazz • Post-Disaster Recovery • Race and Space • Treme • TV series
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4561-0 / 1498545610
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4561-7 / 9781498545617