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  title info:
    title: Stories without borders
    sub title: the Berlin Wall and the making of a global iconic event
  name:
    name part: Sonnevend, Julia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: How do stories of particular events turn into global myths, while others fade away? What becomes known and seen as a global iconic event? In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic significance. Focusing on journalists covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and on subsequent retellings of the event in a variety of ways, from Legoland reenactments to slabs of the Berlin Wall installed in global cities, Sonnevend discusses how certain events become built up so that people in many parts of the world remember them for long periods of time. She argues that five dimensions determine the viability and longevity of international news events. First, a foundational narrative must be established with certain preconditions. Next, the established narrative becomes universalized and a mythical message developed. This message is then condensed and encapsulated in a simple phrase, a short narrative and a recognizable visual scene. Counternarratives emerge that reinterpret events and in turn facilitate their diffusion across multiple media platforms and changing social and political contexts. Sonnevend examines these five elements through the developments of November 9, 1989, what came to be known as the fall of the Berlin Wall. Stories Without Borders concludes with a discussion of how global iconic events have an enduring effect on individuals and societies, pointing out that after common currencies, military alliances and international courts have failed, stories may be all that we have to bring hope and unity.
  table of contents: 1. Events in Media -- 2. Global Iconic Events : The Five Dimensions of Transnational Storytelling -- 3. Foundation -- 4. Mythologization -- 5. Condensation -- 6. Counter-narration -- 7. Remediation -- 8. Stories Without Borders : Thinking With Global Iconic Events -- Notes on Research Methods.
  note: Julia Sonnevend.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
    topic: Press coverage
  subject:
    topic: Collective memory
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Transnationalism
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
    topic: Social aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Narration (Rhetoric)
    topic: Social aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Narration (Rhetoric)
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Storytelling
    topic: Social aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Storytelling
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  classification: DD881 .S57 2016
  classification: 943/.155087
  identifier: 9780190604318
  identifier: 019060431X
  identifier: 9780190604301
  identifier: 0190604301
  identifier: 2015045311
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160426
    record change date: 20170926150707.0
    record identifier: in00003716207